3 papers
cond-mat.supr-con2026
Surface Platinum Alloying for Passivation of Oxide Interfaces on Superconducting Niobium Films
Ananya Chattaraj, Conan Weiland, Bruce Ravel +10
Dielectric loss arising from two-level systems (TLS) at surfaces and interfaces remains a primary limitation to coherence in superconducting transmon qubits. Niobium (Nb), a widely…
cond-mat.supr-con2025
Vortex Motion Induced Losses in Tantalum Resonators
Faranak Bahrami, Matthew P. Bland, Nana Shumiya +17
Tantalum (Ta) based superconducting circuits have been demonstrated to enable record qubit coherence times and quality factors, motivating a careful study of the microscopic origin…
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024
Revealing the Origin and Nature of the Buried Metal-Substrate Interface Layer in Ta/Sapphire Superconducting Films
Aswin kumar Anbalagan, Rebecca Cummings, Chenyu Zhou +14
Despite constituting a smaller fraction of the qubits electromagnetic mode, surfaces and interfaces can exert significant influence as sources of high-loss tangents, which brings f…