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most citedHardware-Efficient Microwave-Activated Tunable Coupling Between Superconducting Qubits

82 citations · 504 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

quant-ph2026

Dynamically protected erasure qubit via low-frequency charge driving

Ahmed Hajr, Ke Wang, Bingcheng Qing +6

Dynamical protection via strong driving can enable resilient quantum processing on imperfect physical hardware. However, the practical utility of such schemes is frequently limited…

quant-ph2026

A Qutrit Time Crystal Stabilized with Native Chiral Interactions

Noah Goss, Nishchay Suri, Brian Marinelli +11

Periodically driven quantum many-body systems can spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry, realizing discrete time crystals. To date, both experimental and theoretic…

quant-ph2026

Understanding Quantum Instruments

Akel Hashim

The quantum instrument (QI) formalism is required to model mid-circuit measurements (MCMs) and the dependence of the post-measurement state on the measurement outcome. Correctly mo…

quant-ph2026

Time-series based quantum state discrimination

Samuel Jung, Neel Vora, Akel Hashim +2

Accurate quantum state readout is crucial for error correction and algorithms, but measurement errors are detrimental. Readout fidelity is typically limited by a poor signal-to-noi…

quant-ph2025

Easier randomizing gates provide more accurate fidelity estimation

Debankan Sannamoth, Kristine Boone, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas +4

Accurate benchmarking of quantum gates is crucial for understanding and enhancing the performance of quantum hardware. A standard method for this is interleaved benchmarking, a tec…

quant-ph2025

Enhancing quantum noise characterization via extra energy levels

Senrui Chen, Akel Hashim, Noah Goss +3

Noise is a major challenge for building practical quantum computing systems. Precise characterization of quantum noise is crucial for developing effective error mitigation and corr…

quant-ph2025

Advances in Josephson Junction Materials and Processes Toward Practical Quantum Computing

Hyunseong Kim, Gyunghyun Jang, Seungwon Jin +8

The Josephson junction is the fundamental nonlinear building block of superconducting quantum technologies. Its macroscopic quantum tunneling physics underpins superconducting quan…

quant-ph2025

Heisenberg-limited calibration of entangling gates with robust phase estimation

Kenneth Rudinger, J. P. Marceaux, Akel Hashim +3

The calibration of high-quality two-qubit entangling gates is an essential component in engineering large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. However, many standard calibratio…

quant-ph2024

AC/DC: Automated Compilation for Dynamic Circuits

Siyuan Niu, Efekan Kokcu, Anupam Mitra +6

Dynamic quantum circuits incorporate mid-circuit measurements (MCMs) and feed-forward operations are crucial for manipulating quantum information. They have been broadly used in qu…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Quantum Benchmarking of High-Fidelity Noise-Biased Operations on a Detuned-Kerr-Cat Qubit

Bingcheng Qing, Ahmed Hajr, Ke Wang +19

Ubiquitous noises in quantum systems remain a key obstacle to building quantum computers, necessitating the use of quantum error correction codes. Recently, error-correcting codes…

quant-ph2024

Hardware-Assisted Parameterized Circuit Execution

Abhi D. Rajagopala, Akel Hashim, Neelay Fruitwala +6

Standard compilers for quantum circuits decompose arbitrary single-qubit gates into a sequence of physical X(pi/2) pulses and virtual-Z phase gates. Consequently, many circuit clas…

quant-ph2024★ 21 cited

A Practical Introduction to Benchmarking and Characterization of Quantum Computers

Akel Hashim, Long B. Nguyen, Noah Goss +16

Rapid progress in quantum technology has transformed quantum computing and quantum information science from theoretical possibilities into tangible engineering challenges. Breakthr…

quant-ph2024

Hardware-Efficient Randomized Compiling

Neelay Fruitwala, Akel Hashim, Abhi D. Rajagopala +7

Randomized compiling (RC) is an efficient method for tailoring arbitrary Markovian errors into stochastic Pauli channels. However, the standard procedure for implementing the proto…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

ML-Powered FPGA-based Real-Time Quantum State Discrimination Enabling Mid-circuit Measurements

Neel R. Vora, Yilun Xu, Akel Hashim +12

Accurate and timely quantum state discrimination is critical for quantum computing, particularly in protocols requiring mid-circuit measurement (MCM) and conditional feed-forward.…

quant-ph2024

Distributed Architecture for FPGA-based Superconducting Qubit Control

Neelay Fruitwala, Gang Huang, Yilun Xu +6

Quantum circuits utilizing real time feedback techniques (such as active reset and mid-circuit measurement) are a powerful tool for NISQ-era quantum computing. Such techniques are…

quant-ph2024

Average circuit eigenvalue sampling on NISQ devices

Emilio Pelaez, Victory Omole, Pranav Gokhale +4

Average circuit eigenvalue sampling (ACES) was introduced by Flammia in arXiv:2108.05803 as a protocol to characterize the Pauli error channels of individual gates across the devic…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Efficient Generation of Multi-partite Entanglement between Non-local Superconducting Qubits using Classical Feedback

Akel Hashim, Ming Yuan, Pranav Gokhale +8

Quantum entanglement is one of the primary features which distinguishes quantum computers from classical computers. In gate-based quantum computing, the creation of entangled state…

quant-ph2023★ 29 cited

Empowering high-dimensional quantum computing by traversing the dual bosonic ladder

Long B. Nguyen, Noah Goss, Karthik Siva +6

High-dimensional quantum information processing has emerged as a promising avenue to transcend hardware limitations and advance the frontiers of quantum technologies. Harnessing th…

quant-ph2023★ 10 cited

Quasi-Probabilistic Readout Correction of Mid-Circuit Measurements for Adaptive Feedback via Measurement Randomized Compiling

Akel Hashim, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Larry Chen +6

Quantum measurements are a fundamental component of quantum computing. However, on modern-day quantum computers, measurements can be more error prone than quantum gates, and are su…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Powerful Quantum Circuit Resizing with Resource Efficient Synthesis

Siyuan Niu, Akel Hashim, Costin Iancu +2

In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, mid-circuit measurement and reset operations facilitate novel circuit optimization strategies by reducing a circuit's qubit count in a…

quant-ph2023

Superstaq: Deep Optimization of Quantum Programs

Colin Campbell, Frederic T. Chong, Denny Dahl +21

We describe Superstaq, a quantum software platform that optimizes the execution of quantum programs by tailoring to underlying hardware primitives. For benchmarks such as the Berns…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Extending the Computational Reach of a Superconducting Qutrit Processor

Noah Goss, Samuele Ferracin, Akel Hashim +5

Quantum computing with qudits is an emerging approach that exploits a larger, more-connected computational space, providing advantages for many applications, including quantum simu…

quant-ph2022★ 58 cited

Programmable Heisenberg interactions between Floquet qubits

Long B. Nguyen, Yosep Kim, Akel Hashim +9

The fundamental trade-off between robustness and tunability is a central challenge in the pursuit of quantum simulation and fault-tolerant quantum computation. In particular, many…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Benchmarking quantum logic operations relative to thresholds for fault tolerance

Akel Hashim, Stefan Seritan, Timothy Proctor +6

Contemporary methods for benchmarking noisy quantum processors typically measure average error rates or process infidelities. However, thresholds for fault-tolerant quantum error c…