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Quantitative characterization of superconducting qubits as particle detectors
Francesco De Dominicis, Raja Yasir Mehmood Khan, Dounia L Helis +22
Ionizing radiation is a major source of correlated errors in superconducting quantum processors, yet the mechanisms responsible for the qubit response to particle interactions rema…
Microwave dielectric properties of LiNbO and AlN at millikelvin temperatures and single-photon power
Alessandro Reineri, Francesco Crisa, Akshay Murthy +8
Efficient bidirectional microwave-optical photon conversion is a key capability for scaling superconducting quantum processors into distributed networks. However, achieving the nec…
Two-Level System Spectroscopy from Correlated Multilevel Relaxation in Superconducting Qubits
Tanay Roy, Xinyuan You, David van Zanten +5
Transmon qubits are a cornerstone of modern superconducting quantum computing platforms. Temporal fluctuations of energy relaxation in these qubits are widely attributed to microsc…
Effect of metal encapsulation on bulk superconducting properties of niobium thin films used in qubits
Amlan Datta, Kamal R. Joshi, Sunil Ghimire +18
Niobium metal occupies nearly 100\% of the volume of a typical 2D transmon device. While the aluminum Josephson junction is of utmost importance, maintaining quantum coherence acro…
Oxygen distribution and segregation at grain boundaries in Nb and Ta-encapsulated Nb thin films for superconducting qubits
Jaeyel Lee, Dieter Isheim, Zuhawn Sung +14
We report on atomic-scale analyses of oxygen distribution and segregation at grain boundaries (GBs) of Nb and Ta-encapsulated Nb (Ta/Nb) thin films for superconducting qubits using…
Correlating Superconducting Qubit Performance Losses to Sidewall Near-Field Scattering via Terahertz Nanophotonics
Richard H. J. Kim, Samuel J. Haeuser, Joong-Mok Park +16
Elucidating dielectric losses, structural heterogeneity, and interface imperfections is critical for improving coherence in superconducting qubits. However, most diagnostics rely o…
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…
Fast Sideband Control of a Weakly Coupled Multimode Bosonic Memory
Jordan Huang, Thomas J. DiNapoli, Gavin Rockwood +9
Circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) with superconducting cavities coupled to nonlinear circuits like transmons offers a promising platform for hardware-efficient quantum informa…
Identifying Materials-Level Sources of Performance Variation in Superconducting Transmon Qubits
Akshay A. Murthy, Mustafa Bal, Michael J. Bedzyk +46
The Superconducting Materials and Systems (SQMS) Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, has conducted a comprehensive and coordinated study using super…
Disentangling the Impact of Quasiparticles and Two-Level Systems on the Statistics of Superconducting Qubit Lifetime
Shaojiang Zhu, Xinyuan You, Ugur Alyanak +8
Temporal fluctuations in the superconducting qubit lifetime, , bring up additional challenges in building a fault-tolerant quantum computer. While the exact mechanisms remain…
Evaluating radiation impact on transmon qubits in above and underground facilities
Francesco De Dominicis, Tanay Roy, Ambra Mariani +20
Superconducting qubits can be sensitive to abrupt energy deposits caused by cosmic rays and ambient radioactivity. While previous studies have explored correlated effects in time a…
Magnetic Fluctuations in Niobium Pentoxide
Y. Krasnikova, A. A. Murthy, F. Crisa +10
Using a spin-polarized muon beam we were able to capture magnetic dynamics in an amorphous niobium pentoxide thin film. Muons are used to probe internal magnetic fields produced by…
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…
High quality superconducting Nb co-planar resonators on sapphire substrate
S. Zhu, F. Crisa, M. Bal +10
We present measurements and simulations of superconducting Nb co-planar waveguide resonators on sapphire substrate down to millikelvin temperature range with different readout powe…
Electrostatic field-driven supercurrent suppression in ionic-gated metallic Josephson nanotransistors
Federico Paolucci, Francesco Crisà, Giorgio De Simoni +5
Recent experiments have shown the possibility of tuning the transport properties of metallic nanosized superconductors through a gate voltage. These results renewed the longstandin…