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quant-ph2025

Crosstalk Dispersion and Spatial Scaling in Superconducting Qubit Arrays

Mohammed Alghadeer, Simon Pettersson Fors, Shuxiang Cao +5

Crosstalk between qubits fundamentally limits the scalability of quantum processors, necessitating physics-based models that can handle the complexity of large qubit arrays. Here,…

quant-ph2025

Double-Bracket Algorithmic Cooling

Mohammed Alghadeer, Khanh Uyen Giang, Shuxiang Cao +6

Algorithmic cooling shows that it is possible to locally reduce the entropy of a qubit belonging to an isolated ensemble such as nuclear spins in molecules or nitrogen-vacancy cent…

quant-ph2025

Intrinsic Multi-Mode Interference for Passive Suppression of Purcell Decay in Superconducting Circuits

Mustafa Bakr, Mohammed Alghadeer, Simon Pettersson Fors +6

Decoherence due to radiative decay remains an important consideration in scaling superconducting quantum processors. We introduce a passive, interference-based methodology for supp…

quant-ph2025

Low Crosstalk in a Scalable Superconducting Quantum Lattice

Mohammed Alghadeer, Shuxiang Cao, Simone D Fasciati +5

Superconducting quantum circuits are a key platform for advancing quantum information processing and simulation. Scaling efforts currently encounter challenges such as Josephson-ju…

quant-ph2025

Characterization of Nanostructural Imperfections in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Mohammed Alghadeer, Simone D Fasciati, Shuxiang Cao +7

Decoherence in superconducting quantum circuits, caused by loss mechanisms like material imperfections and two-level system (TLS) defects, remains a major obstacle to improving the…

quant-ph2024

Multiplexed Readout of Superconducting Qubits Using a 3D Re-entrant Cavity Filter

Mustafa Bakr, Simone D. Fasciati, Shuxiang Cao +7

Hardware efficient methods for high fidelity quantum state measurements are crucial for superconducting qubit experiments, as qubit numbers grow and feedback and state reset begin…

quant-ph2024

Complementing the transmon by integrating a geometric shunt inductor

Simone D. Fasciati, Boris Shteynas, Giulio Campanaro +5

We realize a single-Josephson-junction transmon qubit shunted by a simple geometric inductor. We couple it capacitively to a conventional transmon and show that the ZZ interaction…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Superconducting qubit readout enhanced by path signature

Shuxiang Cao, Zhen Shao, Jian-Qing Zheng +15

Quantum non-demolition measurement plays an essential role in quantum technology, crucial for quantum error correction, metrology, and sensing. Conventionally, the qubit state is c…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Encoding optimization for quantum machine learning demonstrated on a superconducting transmon qutrit

Shuxiang Cao, Weixi Zhang, Jules Tilly +9

Qutrits, three-level quantum systems, have the advantage of potentially requiring fewer components than the typically used two-level qubits to construct equivalent quantum circuits…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Emulating two qubits with a four-level transmon qudit for variational quantum algorithms

Shuxiang Cao, Mustafa Bakr, Giulio Campanaro +7

Using quantum systems with more than two levels, or qudits, can scale the computation space of quantum processors more efficiently than using qubits, which may offer an easier phys…

quant-ph2022★ 8 cited

Efficient characterization of qudit logical gates with gate set tomography using an error-free Virtual-Z-gate model

Shuxiang Cao, Deep Lall, Mustafa Bakr +7

Gate-set tomography (GST) characterizes the process matrix of quantum logic gates, along with measurement and state preparation errors in quantum processors. GST typically requires…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Multi-agent blind quantum computation without universal cluster states

Shuxiang Cao

Blind quantum computation (BQC) protocols enable quantum algorithms to be executed on third-party quantum agents while keeping the data and algorithm confidential. The previous pro…

quant-ph2021★ 1.1k cited

The Variational Quantum Eigensolver: a review of methods and best practices

Jules Tilly, Hongxiang Chen, Shuxiang Cao +8

The variational quantum eigensolver (or VQE) uses the variational principle to compute the ground state energy of a Hamiltonian, a problem that is central to quantum chemistry and…

quant-ph2021★ 43 cited

High Coherence in a Tileable 3D Integrated Superconducting Circuit Architecture

Peter A. Spring, Shuxiang Cao, Takahiro Tsunoda +11

We report high qubit coherence as well as low crosstalk and single-qubit gate errors in a superconducting circuit architecture that promises to be tileable to 2D lattices of qubits…

quant-ph2019★ 30 cited

Cost function embedding and dataset encoding for machine learning with parameterized quantum circuits

Shuxiang Cao, Leonard Wossnig, Brian Vlastakis +2

Machine learning is seen as a promising application of quantum computation. For near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) have…

quant-ph2018★ 317 cited

Hierarchical quantum classifiers

Edward Grant, Marcello Benedetti, Shuxiang Cao +5

Quantum circuits with hierarchical structure have been used to perform binary classification of classical data encoded in a quantum state. We demonstrate that more expressive circu…