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most citedBuilding a fault-tolerant quantum computer using concatenated cat codes

295 citations · 988 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

quant-ph2026

Error-Corrected QRAM Queries with One-Fault-Tolerant \texttt{CSWAP} Gates

Shifan Xu, Connor T. Hann, Nathan Wiebe +2

Quantum random-access memory (QRAM) enables coherent queries to classical data. However, the \(O(N)\) qubits required for a memory with \(N=2^n\) addresses make QRAM appear vulnera…

quant-ph2026

Scalable Passive QRAM

Siddhartha Jain, Alexander M. Dalzell, Connor T. Hann

We present a blueprint for implementing the physical QRAM operation in a scalable, passive manner, proving its feasibility in principle. Our construction is passive because for an…

quant-ph2026

Dissipatively Stabilized 0-n Fock Qubits for Noise-Biased Quantum Computing

Su Direkci, Simon Lieu, Kyungjoo Noh +1

Noise-biased qubits have bit-flip errors that are exponentially suppressed relative to phase-flip errors, and offer a promising route toward fault-tolerant quantum computing. Howev…

quant-ph2026

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

Yufeng Ye, Connor T. Hann, Kyungjoo Noh +4

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-ph2026

Readout-induced degradation of transmon lifetimes: interplay of TLSs and qubit spectral reshaping

Ziwen Huang, Jimmy Shih-Chun Hung, Mouktik Raha +9

Measurement backaction degrades dispersive readout of superconducting qubits even at modest drive strengths, often via the reduction of qubit lifetimes during readout. In this work…

quant-ph2025

Cavity-mediated cross-cross-resonance gate

Alexey V. Gorshkov, Daniel Cohen, Arbel Haim +8

We propose a cavity-mediated gate between two transmon qubits or other nonlinear superconducting elements. The gate is realized by driving both qubits at a frequency that is near-r…

quant-ph2025

A distillation-teleportation protocol for fault-tolerant QRAM

Alexander M. Dalzell, András Gilyén, Connor T. Hann +5

We present a protocol for fault-tolerantly implementing the logical quantum random access memory (QRAM) operation, given access to a specialized, noisy QRAM device. For coherently…

quant-ph2025

Frequency-noise-insensitive universal control of Kerr-cat qubits

Lennart Maximilian Seifert, Connor T. Hann, Kyungjoo Noh

We theoretically study the influence of frequency uncertainties on the operation of a Kerr-cat qubit. As the mean photon number increases, Kerr-cat qubits provide an increasing lev…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Viewing protected superconducting qubits through the lens of the cat qubit

Simon Lieu, Emma L. Rosenfeld, Kyungjoo Noh +1

We draw analogies between protected superconducting qubits and bosonic qubits by studying the fluxonium Hamiltonian in its Fock basis. The mean-field phase diagram of fluxonium (at…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

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-ph2024★ 6 cited

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★ 100 cited

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-ph2024★ 2 cited

Cross-resonance control of an oscillator with an auxiliary fluxonium qubit

Guo Zheng, Simon Lieu, Emma L. Rosenfeld +2

The conditional displacement (CD) gate between an oscillator and a discrete-variable auxiliary qubit plays a key role in quantum information processing tasks, such as enabling univ…

quant-ph2024

Designing high-fidelity two-qubit gates between fluxonium qubits

Emma L. Rosenfeld, Connor T. Hann, David I. Schuster +2

We take a bottom-up, first-principles approach to design a two-qubit gate between fluxonium qubits for minimal error, speed, and control simplicity. Our proposed architecture consi…

quant-ph2023★ 48 cited

Quantum algorithms: A survey of applications and end-to-end complexities

Alexander M. Dalzell, Sam McArdle, Mario Berta +10

The anticipated applications of quantum computers span across science and industry, ranging from quantum chemistry and many-body physics to optimization, finance, and machine learn…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Systems Architecture for Quantum Random Access Memory

Shifan Xu, Connor T. Hann, Ben Foxman +2

Operating on the principles of quantum mechanics, quantum algorithms hold the promise for solving problems that are beyond the reach of the best-available classical algorithms. An…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Error Suppression for Arbitrary-Size Black Box Quantum Operations

Gideon Lee, Connor T. Hann, Shruti Puri +2

Efficient suppression of errors without full error correction is crucial for applications with NISQ devices. Error mitigation allows us to suppress errors in extracting expectation…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Data centers with quantum random access memory and quantum networks

Junyu Liu, Connor T. Hann, Liang Jiang

In this paper, we propose the Quantum Data Center (QDC), an architecture combining Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) and quantum networks. We give a precise definition of QDC, an…

quant-ph2020★ 67 cited

Resilience of quantum random access memory to generic noise

Connor T. Hann, Gideon Lee, S. M. Girvin +1

Quantum random access memory (QRAM)--memory which stores classical data but allows queries to be performed in superposition--is required for the implementation of numerous quantum…

quant-ph2020★ 295 cited

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-ph2020★ 22 cited

Single-shot number-resolved detection of microwave photons with error mitigation

Jacob C. Curtis, Connor T. Hann, Salvatore S. Elder +4

Single-photon detectors are ubiquitous and integral components of photonic quantum cryptography, communication, and computation. Many applications, however, require not only detect…

quant-ph2019★ 82 cited

High-fidelity measurement of qubits encoded in multilevel superconducting circuits

Salvatore S. Elder, Christopher S. Wang, Philip Reinhold +7

Qubit measurements are central to quantum information processing. In the field of superconducting qubits, standard readout techniques are not only limited by the signal-to-noise ra…

quant-ph2019★ 170 cited

Hardware-efficient quantum random access memory with hybrid quantum acoustic systems

Connor T. Hann, Chang-Ling Zou, Yaxing Zhang +4

Hybrid quantum systems in which acoustic resonators couple to superconducting qubits are promising quantum information platforms. High quality factors and small mode volumes make a…

quant-ph2017★ 23 cited

Robust readout of bosonic qubits in the dispersive coupling regime

Connor T. Hann, Salvatore S. Elder, Christopher S. Wang +3

High-fidelity qubit measurements play a crucial role in quantum computation, communication, and metrology. In recent experiments, it has been shown that readout fidelity may be imp…