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20172025
most citedMoving beyond the transmon: Noise-protected superconducting quantum circuits

112 citations · 629 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

quant-ph2025

Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction

Volodymyr Sivak, Alexis Morvan, Michael Broughton +296

Quantum error correction (QEC) is the primary strategy for protecting a quantum computer from the environment. Its prerequisite is that errors must remain sufficiently rare, which…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

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-ph2023★ 36 cited

Probing entanglement across the energy spectrum of a hard-core Bose-Hubbard lattice

Amir H. Karamlou, Ilan T. Rosen, Sarah E. Muschinske +16

Entanglement and its propagation are central to understanding a multitude of physical properties of quantum systems. Notably, within closed quantum many-body systems, entanglement…

quant-ph2022★ 37 cited

Demonstration of tunable three-body interactions between superconducting qubits

Tim Menke, William P. Banner, Thomas R. Bergamaschi +16

Nonpairwise multi-qubit interactions present a useful resource for quantum information processors. Their implementation would facilitate more efficient quantum simulations of molec…

quant-ph2021

Distinguishing multi-spin interactions from lower-order effects

Thomas R. Bergamaschi, Tim Menke, William P. Banner +5

Multi-spin interactions can be engineered with artificial quantum spins. However, it is challenging to verify such interactions experimentally. Here we describe two methods to char…

quant-ph2021★ 14 cited

Superconducting coupler with exponentially large on-off ratio

Catherine Leroux, Agustin Di Paolo, Alexandre Blais

Tunable two-qubit couplers offer an avenue to mitigate errors in multiqubit superconducting quantum processors. However, most couplers operate in a narrow frequency band and target…

quant-ph2021★ 69 cited

Quantum transport and localization in 1d and 2d tight-binding lattices

Amir H. Karamlou, Jochen Braumüller, Yariv Yanay +16

Particle transport and localization phenomena in condensed-matter systems can be modeled using a tight-binding lattice Hamiltonian. The ideal experimental emulation of such a model…

quant-ph2021★ 35 cited

Accurate methods for the analysis of strong-drive effects in parametric gates

Alexandru Petrescu, Camille Le Calonnec, Catherine Leroux +6

The ability to perform fast, high-fidelity entangling gates is an important requirement for a viable quantum processor. In practice, achieving fast gates often comes with the penal…

quant-ph2021★ 27 cited

Quantum-tailored machine-learning characterization of a superconducting qubit

Élie Genois, Jonathan A. Gross, Agustin Di Paolo +5

Machine learning (ML) is a promising approach for performing challenging quantum-information tasks such as device characterization, calibration and control. ML models can train dir…

quant-ph2021★ 112 cited

Moving beyond the transmon: Noise-protected superconducting quantum circuits

András Gyenis, Agustin Di Paolo, Jens Koch +3

Artificial atoms realized by superconducting circuits offer unique opportunities to store and process quantum information with high fidelity. Among them, implementations of circuit…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Fast and differentiable simulation of driven quantum systems

Ross Shillito, Jonathan A. Gross, Agustin Di Paolo +2

The controls enacting logical operations on quantum systems are described by time-dependent Hamiltonians that often include rapid oscillations. In order to accurately capture the r…

quant-ph2020★ 84 cited

Quantum-optimal-control-inspired ansatz for variational quantum algorithms

Alexandre Choquette, Agustin Di Paolo, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos +3

A central component of variational quantum algorithms (VQA) is the state-preparation circuit, also known as ansatz or variational form. This circuit is most commonly designed to re…

quant-ph2020★ 79 cited

Improving the Performance of Deep Quantum Optimization Algorithms with Continuous Gate Sets

Nathan Lacroix, Christoph Hellings, Christian Kraglund Andersen +9

Variational quantum algorithms are believed to be promising for solving computationally hard problems and are often comprised of repeated layers of quantum gates. An example thereo…

quant-ph2019★ 2 cited

Efficient modeling of superconducting quantum circuits with tensor networks

Agustin Di Paolo, Thomas E. Baker, Alexandre Foley +2

We introduce an efficient tensor network toolbox to compute the low-energy excitations of large-scale superconducting quantum circuits up to a desired accuracy. We benchmark this a…

quant-ph2019★ 25 cited

Variational Quantum Simulation of Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling

Agustin Di Paolo, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli +1

We propose the simulation of quantum-optical systems in the ultrastrong-coupling regime using a variational quantum algorithm. More precisely, we introduce a short-depth variationa…

quant-ph2017★ 89 cited

Coherence properties of the 0- qubit

Peter Groszkowski, A. Di Paolo, A. L. Grimsmo +4

Superconducting circuits rank among the most interesting architectures for the implementation of quantum information processing devices. The recently proposed 0- qubit [Brooks e…