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quant-ph2026

Exponential speedups in fault-tolerant processing of quantum experiments

Ishaan Kannan, Harald Putterman, Jordan Cotler

Quantum information processing has the potential to substantially enhance how we learn from physical experiments, but coupling a quantum processor to an experimental sample introdu…

quant-ph2026

When quantum thermal states look classical

Harald Putterman, Alexander Zlokapa, Jordan Cotler

The paper analyzes how quantum Gibbs states retain classical properties such as lack of entanglement and magic at finite temperatures, establishing a hierarchy of classical‑to‑quan…

#quantum thermal states#entanglement transition#classical simulation#Gibbs sampling
quant-ph2025

Hardware-efficient quantum error correction via concatenated bosonic qubits

Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Connor T. Hann +118

In order to solve problems of practical importance, quantum computers will likely need to incorporate quantum error correction, where a logical qubit is redundantly encoded in many…

quant-ph2026

Bias-preserving cat-cat CNOT gate via vacuum-conditional beam-splitter

Yufeng Ye, Yufeng, Ye +6

Cat qubits can exhibit strong noise bias due to their exponentially enhanced bit-flip times and only polynomially reduced phase-flip times with increasing photon number, which make…

quant-ph2025

Preserving phase coherence and linearity in cat qubits with exponential bit-flip suppression

Harald Putterman, Kyungjoo Noh, Rishi N. Patel +17

Cat qubits, a type of bosonic qubit encoded in a harmonic oscillator, can exhibit an exponential noise bias against bit-flip errors with increasing mean photon number. Here, we foc…

quant-ph2024

Hybrid cat-transmon architecture for scalable, hardware-efficient quantum error correction

Connor T. Hann, Kyungjoo Noh, Harald Putterman +6

Dissipative cat qubits are a promising physical platform for quantum computing, since their large noise bias can enable more hardware-efficient quantum error correction. In this wo…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Approximate Optimization of Non-Planar Graph Problems on a Planar Superconducting Processor

Matthew P. Harrigan, Kevin J. Sung, Matthew Neeley +83

We demonstrate the application of the Google Sycamore superconducting qubit quantum processor to combinatorial optimization problems with the quantum approximate optimization algor…

quant-ph2022

Stabilizing a Bosonic Qubit using Colored Dissipation

Harald Putterman, Joseph Iverson, Qian Xu +4

Protected qubits such as the 0- qubit, and bosonic qubits including cat qubits and GKP qubits offer advantages for fault-tolerance. Some of these protected qubits (e.g., 0-

cond-mat.str-el2020

Creating and manipulating a Laughlin-type fractional quantum Hall state on a quantum computer with linear depth circuits

Armin Rahmani, Kevin J. Sung, Harald Putterman +3

Here we present an efficient quantum algorithm to generate an equivalent many-body state to Laughlin's fractional quantum Hall state on a digitized quantum computer. Our a…

quant-ph2022

Building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using concatenated cat codes

Christopher Chamberland, Kyungjoo Noh, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +13

We present a comprehensive architectural analysis for a proposed fault-tolerant quantum computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes. For the…

quant-ph2023

Phonon engineering of atomic-scale defects in superconducting quantum circuits

Mo Chen, John Clai Owens, Harald Putterman +2

Noise within solid-state systems at low temperatures, where many of the degrees of freedom of the host material are frozen out, can typically be traced back to material defects tha…

quant-ph2020

Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer

Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +79

As the search continues for useful applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, variational simulations of fermionic systems remain one of the most promising direction…

quant-ph2020

Observation of separated dynamics of charge and spin in the Fermi-Hubbard model

Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush +96

Strongly correlated quantum systems give rise to many exotic physical phenomena, including high-temperature superconductivity. Simulating these systems on quantum computers may avo…

quant-ph2026

Restrictions on non-Clifford fault tolerance and ruling out beyond-SQL quantum metrology

Constantin Cedillo Vayson de Pradenne, Ishaan Kannan, Harald Putterman +1

The paper proves limits on transversal non‑Clifford gates in stabilizer codes, showing these constraints prevent fault‑tolerant transversal sensing that would surpass the standard…

#fault-tolerant quantum computation#quantum metrology#stabilizer codes#transversal gates
quant-ph2024

Demonstrating a long-coherence dual-rail erasure qubit using tunable transmons

Harry Levine, Arbel Haim, Jimmy S. C. Hung +110

Quantum error correction with erasure qubits promises significant advantages over standard error correction due to favorable thresholds for erasure errors. To realize this advantag…

quant-ph2021

Exponential suppression of bit or phase flip errors with repetitive error correction

Zijun Chen, Kevin J. Satzinger, Juan Atalaya +88

Realizing the potential of quantum computing will require achieving sufficiently low logical error rates. Many applications call for error rates in the regime, but state…