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20182026
most citedUniversal fast flux control of a coherent, low-frequency qubit

131 citations · 384 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

quant-ph2026

Dynamically suppressing cavity dephasing induced by frequency fluctuations of a coupled nonlinear mode

Yunwei Lu, Xinyuan You, Ziwen Huang +3

High-coherence superconducting cavities offer a promising platform for quantum information, with long coherence times and negligible intrinsic dephasing. However, cavity control ge…

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

Systematic Construction of Time-Dependent Hamiltonians for Microwave-Driven Josephson Circuits

Yao Lu, Tianpu Zhao, André Vallières +13

Time-dependent electromagnetic drives are fundamental for controlling complex quantum systems, including superconducting Josephson circuits. In these devices, accurate time-depende…

quant-ph2025

Ultracoherent superconducting cavity-based multiqudit platform with error-resilient control

Taeyoon Kim, Tanay Roy, Xinyuan You +26

Realizing the promise of quantum computing requires simultaneously increasing Hilbert-space size and coherence times. While qubit-based architectures have long been the dominant pa…

quant-ph2023★ 123 cited

Systematic Improvements in Transmon Qubit Coherence Enabled by Niobium Surface Encapsulation

Mustafa Bal, Akshay A. Murthy, Shaojiang Zhu +37

We present a novel transmon qubit fabrication technique that yields systematic improvements in T relaxation times. We fabricate devices using an encapsulation strategy that inv…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Completely Positive Map for Noisy Driven Quantum Systems Derived by Keldysh Expansion

Ziwen Huang, Yunwei Lu, Anna Grassellino +3

Accurate modeling of decoherence errors in quantum processors is crucial for analyzing and improving gate fidelities. To increase the accuracy beyond that of the Lindblad dynamical…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Experimental verification of the treatment of time-dependent flux in circuit quantization

Jacob Bryon, D. K. Weiss, Xinyuan You +5

Recent theoretical work has highlighted that quantizing a superconducting circuit in the presence of time-dependent flux generally produces Hamiltonian terms proportional to…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Computer-aided quantization and numerical analysis of superconducting circuits

Sai Pavan Chitta, Tianpu Zhao, Ziwen Huang +2

The development of new superconducting circuits and the improvement of existing ones rely on the accurate modeling of spectral properties which are key to achieving the needed adva…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

High-Order Qubit Dephasing at Sweet Spots by Non-Gaussian Fluctuators: Symmetry Breaking and Floquet Protection

Ziwen Huang, Xinyuan You, Ugur Alyanak +3

Although the Gaussian-noise assumption is widely adopted in the study of qubit decoherence, non-Gaussian noise sources, especially the strong discrete fluctuators, have been detect…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Stabilizing and improving qubit coherence by engineering noise spectrum of two-level systems

Xinyuan You, Ziwen Huang, Ugur Alyanak +3

Superconducting circuits are a leading platform for quantum computing. However, their coherence times are still limited and exhibit temporal fluctuations. Those phenomena are often…

quant-ph2022★ 5 cited

Generalizations of Berry phase and differentiation of purified state and thermal vacuum of mixed states

Xu-Yang Hou, Zi-Wen Huang, Zheng Zhou +3

Two representations of mixed states by state-vectors, known as purified state and thermal vacuum, have been realized on quantum computers. While the two representations look simila…

quant-ph2022★ 24 cited

Quantum computing hardware for HEP algorithms and sensing

M. Sohaib Alam, Sergey Belomestnykh, Nicholas Bornman +37

Quantum information science harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics to realize computational algorithms with complexities vastly intractable by current computer platforms. Ty…

quant-ph2020★ 131 cited

Universal fast flux control of a coherent, low-frequency qubit

Helin Zhang, Srivatsan Chakram, Tanay Roy +6

The \textit{heavy-fluxonium} circuit is a promising building block for superconducting quantum processors due to its long relaxation and dephasing time at the half-flux frustration…

quant-ph2018★ 51 cited

Quantum control of an oscillator using stimulated nonlinearity

Andrei Vrajitoarea, Ziwen Huang, Peter Groszkowski +2

Superconducting circuits extensively rely on the Josephson junction as a nonlinear electronic element for manipulating quantum information and mediating photon interactions. Despit…

cond-mat.supr-con2018

BCS thermal vacuum of fermionic superfluids and its perturbation theory

Xu-Yang Hou, Ziwen Huang, Hao Guo +2

The thermal field theory is applied to fermionic superfluids by doubling the degrees of freedom of the BCS theory. We construct the two-mode states and the corresponding Bogoliubov…

quant-ph2018★ 13 cited

Universal stabilization of single-qubit states using a tunable coupler

Ziwen Huang, Yao Lu, Eliot Kapit +2

We theoretically analyze a scheme for fast stabilization of arbitrary qubit states with high fidelities, extending a protocol recently demonstrated experimentally [Lu et al., Phys.…