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20182026
most citedThe high-coherence fluxonium qubit

252 citations · 451 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

quant-ph2026

Syndrome-Resolved Decoding of Qubit Readout Errors

Han Zheng, Vladimir Pešić, Nikolay Gusarov +7

Readout errors in superconducting qubits include incorrect state assignment, bit flips within the computational subspace, and leakage to non-computational states. These errors requ…

quant-ph2026

Proposal for erasure conversion in integer fluxonium qubits

Jiakai Wang, Raymond A. Mencia, Vladimir E. Manucharyan +1

We propose an erasure conversion scheme on the and qubits in integer fluxonium qubits (IFQs), which are both first-order insensitive to…

quant-ph2025

Raising the Cavity Frequency in cQED

Raymond A. Mencia, Taketo Imaizumi, Igor A. Golovchanskiy +2

The basic element of circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) is a cavity resonator strongly coupled to a superconducting qubit. Since the inception of the field, the choice of the c…

quant-ph2024

Integer Fluxonium Qubit

Raymond A. Mencia, Wei-Ju Lin, Hyunheung Cho +2

We describe a superconducting qubit derived from operating a properly designed fluxonium circuit in a zero magnetic field. The qubit has a frequency of about 4 GHz and an energy re…

quant-ph2023★ 11 cited

Observation of the Schmid-Bulgadaev dissipative quantum phase transition

Roman Kuzmin, Nitish Mehta, Nicholas Grabon +4

Although quantum mechanics applies to many macroscopic superconducting devices, one basic prediction remained controversial for decades. Namely, a Josephson junction connected to a…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Fluxonium Qubits in a Flip-Chip Package

Aaron Somoroff, Patrick Truitt, Adam Weis +10

The strong anharmonicity and high coherence times inherent to fluxonium superconducting circuits are beneficial for quantum information processing. In addition to requiring high-qu…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Demonstration of the Two-Fluxonium Cross-Resonance Gate

Ebru Dogan, Dario Rosenstock, Loïck Le Guevel +7

The superconducting fluxonium qubit has a great potential for high-fidelity quantum gates with its long coherence times and strong anharmonicity at the half flux quantum sweet spot…

quant-ph2021★ 22 cited

Millisecond coherence in a superconducting qubit

Aaron Somoroff, Quentin Ficheux, Raymond A. Mencia +3

Increasing the degree of control over physical qubits is a crucial component of quantum computing research. We report a superconducting qubit of fluxonium type with the Ramsey cohe…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 4 cited

Superconducting TiN films grown by directional reactive evaporation

Raymond Mencia, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Vladimir Manucharyan

We report a novel method of growing strongly-disordered superconducting titanium nitride (TiN) thin films by reactive electron-beam deposition. The normal state sheet resistance an…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 96 cited

The superconducting quasicharge qubit

Ivan V. Pechenezhskiy, Raymond A. Mencia, Long B. Nguyen +2

The non-dissipative non-linearity of a Josephson junction converts macroscopic superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best controlled quantum bits (qu…

quant-ph2018★ 252 cited

The high-coherence fluxonium qubit

Long B. Nguyen, Yen-Hsiang Lin, Aaron Somoroff +3

We report superconducting fluxonium qubits with coherence times largely limited by energy relaxation and reproducibly satisfying T2 > 100 microseconds (T2 > 300 microseconds in one…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

Superstrong coupling in circuit quantum electrodynamics

Roman Kuzmin, Nitish Mehta, Nicholas Grabon +2

Vacuum fluctuations fundamentally affect an atom by inducing a finite excited state lifetime along with a Lamb shift of its transition frequency. Here we report the reverse effect:…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 60 cited

Quantum electrodynamics of a superconductor-insulator phase transition

Roman Kuzmin, Raymond Mencia, Nicholas Grabon +3

A chain of Josephson junctions implements one of the simplest many-body models undergoing a superconductor-insulator (SI) quantum phase transition between states with zero and infi…