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quant-ph2025

ZZ-Free Two-Transmon CZ Gate Mediated by a Fluxonium Coupler

Junyoung An, Helin Zhang, Qi Ding +19

Eliminating residual ZZ interactions in a two-qubit system is essential for reducing coherent errors during quantum operations. In a superconducting circuit platform, coupling two…

quant-ph2023

High-Fidelity, Frequency-Flexible Two-Qubit Fluxonium Gates with a Transmon Coupler

Leon Ding, Max Hays, Youngkyu Sung +16

We propose and demonstrate an architecture for fluxonium-fluxonium two-qubit gates mediated by transmon couplers (FTF, for fluxonium-transmon-fluxonium). Relative to architectures…

quant-ph2024

Dephasing in Fluxonium Qubits from Coherent Quantum Phase Slips

Mallika T. Randeria, Thomas M. Hazard, Agustin Di Paolo +12

Phase slips occur across all Josephson junctions (JJs) at a rate that increases with the impedance of the junction. In superconducting qubits composed of JJ-array superinductors --…

quant-ph2025

Emergent Harmonics in Josephson Tunnel Junctions Due to Series Inductance

Junghyun Kim, Max Hays, Ilan T. Rosen +11

Josephson tunnel junctions are essential elements of superconducting quantum circuits. The operability of these circuits presumes a -periodic sinusoidal potential of a tunnel…

quant-ph2026

Characterization and Comparison of Energy Relaxation in Fluxonium Qubits

Kate Azar, Lamia Ateshian, Mallika T. Randeria +19

Fluxonium superconducting qubits have demonstrated long coherence times and high single- and two-qubit gate fidelities, making them a favorable building block for superconducting q…

quant-ph2024

Qubit-State Purity Oscillations from Anisotropic Transverse Noise

David A. Rower, Kotaro Hida, Lamia Ateshian +13

We explore the dynamics of qubit-state purity in the presence of transverse noise that is anisotropically distributed in the Bloch-sphere XY plane. We perform Ramsey experiments wi…

quant-ph2026

Hardware-efficient erasure-error detection with an integer fluxonium

Junyoung An, Helin Zhang, Jeffrey M. Gertler +13

The paper demonstrates hardware‑efficient erasure‑error detection and conversion using an integer fluxonium qubit, showing improved state lifetimes and reduced gate errors by detec…

#quantum error correction#fluxonium qubits#erasure detection#mid-circuit measurement
quant-ph2026

Driven-dissipative entanglement of distant giant atoms

Aziza Almanakly, Ariadna Soro, Alejandro Vivas-Viaña +15

Quantum interconnects distribute entanglement via controlled light-matter interactions for quantum computing and sensing applications. Many entanglement generation schemes use cohe…

quant-ph2024

Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium

David A. Rower, Leon Ding, Helin Zhang +12

Qubit decoherence unavoidably degrades the fidelity of quantum logic gates. Accordingly, realizing gates that are as fast as possible is a guiding principle for qubit control, nece…