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most citedExponential suppression of bit-flips in a qubit encoded in an oscillator

249 citations · 657 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

quant-ph2026

Engineering multi-photon dissipation with a dc-voltage-biased Josephson junction

Marco Paradina, Ambroise Peugeot, Roberto Negrin +8

Multi-photon dissipation -- a key resource for bosonic qubits -- is usually realized by parametrically pumping a Josephson coupler at the cost of spurious nonlinear terms. Here we…

quant-ph2025

Noise Mitigation in Single Microwave Photon Counting by Cascaded Quantum Measurements

Alexandre S. May, Leo Sutevski, Jeanne Solard +7

While single-photon counting is routinely achieved in the optical domain, operational single microwave photon detectors (SMPDs) have only recently been demonstrated. SMPDs are crit…

quant-ph2025

Enhancing dissipative cat qubit protection by squeezing

Rémi Rousseau, Diego Ruiz, Emanuele Albertinale +38

Dissipative cat-qubits are a promising architecture for quantum processors due to their built-in quantum error correction. By leveraging two-photon stabilization, they achieve an e…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

A cat qubit stabilization scheme using a voltage biased Josephson junction

Thiziri Aissaoui, Anil Murani, Raphaël Lescanne +1

DC-voltage-biased Josephson junctions have been recently employed in superconducting circuits for Hamiltonian engineering, demonstrating microwave amplification, single photon sour…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Harnessing two-photon dissipation for enhanced quantum measurement and control

Antoine Marquet, Simon Dupouy, Ulysse Réglade +8

Dissipation engineering offers a powerful tool for quantum technologies. Recently, new superconducting devices have achieved an engineered two-photon dissipation rate exceeding all…

quant-ph2023★ 23 cited

Autoparametric resonance extending the bit-flip time of a cat qubit up to 0.3 s

Antoine Marquet, Antoine Essig, Joachim Cohen +9

Cat qubits, for which logical and are coherent states of a harmonic mode, offer a promising route towards quantum error correction. Using dis…

quant-ph2023★ 77 cited

Quantum control of a cat-qubit with bit-flip times exceeding ten seconds

Ulysse Réglade, Adrien Bocquet, Ronan Gautier +14

Quantum bits (qubits) are prone to several types of errors due to uncontrolled interactions with their environment. Common strategies to correct these errors are based on architect…

quant-ph2023★ 70 cited

Observation of Josephson Harmonics in Tunnel Junctions

Dennis Willsch, Dennis Rieger, Patrick Winkel +27

Approaches to developing large-scale superconducting quantum processors must cope with the numerous microscopic degrees of freedom that are ubiquitous in solid-state devices. State…

quant-ph2022★ 71 cited

One hundred second bit-flip time in a two-photon dissipative oscillator

C. Berdou, A. Murani, U. Reglade +19

Current implementations of quantum bits (qubits) continue to undergo too many errors to be scaled into useful quantum machines. An emerging strategy is to encode quantum informatio…

quant-ph2019★ 249 cited

Exponential suppression of bit-flips in a qubit encoded in an oscillator

Raphaël Lescanne, Marius Villiers, Théau Peronnin +6

A quantum system interacts with its environment, if ever so slightly, no matter how much care is put into isolating it. As a consequence, quantum bits (qubits) undergo errors, putt…

quant-ph2019★ 111 cited

Detecting itinerant microwave photons with engineered non-linear dissipation

Raphaël Lescanne, Samuel Deléglise, Emanuele Albertinale +6

Single photon detection is a key resource for sensing at the quantum limit and the enabling technology for measurement based quantum computing. Photon detection at optical frequenc…

quant-ph2018★ 47 cited

Structural instability of driven Josephson circuits prevented by an inductive shunt

Lucas Verney, Raphaël Lescanne, Michel H. Devoret +2

Superconducting circuits are a versatile platform to implement a multitude of Hamiltonians which perform quantum computation, simulation and sensing tasks. A key ingredient for rea…

quant-ph2018

Observing the escape of a driven quantum Josephson circuit into unconfined states

Raphaël Lescanne, Lucas Verney, Quentin Ficheux +4

Josephson circuits have been ideal systems to study complex non-linear dynamics which can lead to chaotic behavior and instabilities. More recently, Josephson circuits in the quant…