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most citedStrong Meissner screening change in superconducting radio frequency cavities due to mild baking

44 citations · 79 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

physics.ins-det2026

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…

quant-ph2026

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…

quant-ph2026

Architectural scaling tradeoffs in modular 3D bosonic quantum processors

Shaojiang Zhu, Ugur Alyanak, Tanay Roy +7

We propose a modular three-dimensional bosonic quantum processor built from repeatable coupled-cavity modules linked by configurable interconnect networks. Using hardware-motivated…

physics.ins-det2026

Cryogenic RF characterization of the MAGO cavity for high-frequency gravitational-wave detection

Can Dokuyucu, Bianca Giaccone, Tom Krokotsch +13

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities are promising resonant sensors for gravitational-wave detection in the kHz-MHz frequency range. We report the cryogenic RF characteri…

quant-ph2026

Oxide-Nitride Heteroepitaxy for Low-Loss Dielectrics in Superconducting Quantum Circuits

David A. Garcia-Wetten, Mitchell J. Walker, Peter G. Lim +9

Superconducting qubits show great promise for the realization of fault-tolerant quantum computing, but lossy, amorphous dielectrics limit current technology. Identifying highly cry…

quant-ph2026

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

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…

quant-ph2026

Two-tooth bosonic quantum comb for temporal-correlation sensing

Shaojiang Zhu, Xinyuan You, Alexander Romanenko +1

We characterize the causal structure of coherence transport in open bosonic systems using a two-tooth quantum comb. We show that, by mapping sequential interactions between a struc…

quant-ph2025

A Cryogenic Muon Tagging System Based on Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Superconducting Quantum Processors

Ambra Mariani, Laura Cardani, Mustafa Bal +16

Ionizing radiation has emerged as a potential limiting factor for superconducting quantum processors, inducing quasiparticle bursts and correlated errors that challenge fault-toler…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Vortex-Controlled Quasiparticle Multiplication and Self-Growth Dynamics in Superconducting Resonators

Joong M. Park, Martin Mootz, Richard H. J. Kim +11

Even in the quantum limit, non-equilibrium quasiparticle (QP) populations induce QP poisoning that irreversibly relaxes the quantum state and significantly degrades the coherence o…

quant-ph2025

Efficient Floating-Point Arithmetic on Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers

José E. Cruz Serrallés, Oluwadara Ogunkoya, Do{g}a Murat Kürkçüo{g}lu +5

We propose a novel floating-point encoding scheme that builds on prior work involving fixed-point encodings. We encode floating-point numbers using Two's Complement fixed-point man…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Coherence-Mediated Quantum Thermometry in a Hybrid Circuit-QED Architecture

Shaojiang Zhu, Xinyuan You, Alexander Romanenko +1

Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybr…

hep-ex2025

Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from the Dark SRF Experiment

Saarik Kalia, Zhen Liu, Bianca Giaccone +15

We report the refined dark-photon exclusion bound from Dark SRF's pathfinder run. Our new result is driven by improved theoretical modeling of frequency instability in high-quality…

quant-ph2025

Analysis of RF Surface Loss in a Planar 2D Qubit

Andrei Lunin, Mustafa Bal, Akshay Murthy +3

The Josephson junction and shunt capacitor form a transmon qubit, which is the cornerstone of modern quantum computing platforms. For reliable quantum computing, it is important ho…

physics.acc-ph2025

Optimizing Superconducting Nb Film Cavities by Mitigating Medium-Field Q-Slope Through Annealing

B. Abdisatarov, G. Eremeev, H. E. Elsayed-Ali +9

Niobium films are of interest in applications in various superconducting devices, such as superconducting radiofrequency cavities for particle accelerators and superconducting qubi…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Squeezing enhanced sensing at an exceptional point

Changqing Wang, Deyuan Hu, Silvia Zorzetti +3

Pushing the boundaries of measurement precision is central for sensing and metrology, pursued by nonclassical resources such as squeezing, and non-Hermitian degeneracies with disti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

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…

quant-ph2025

Demonstrating magnetic field robustness and reducing temporal T1 noise in transmon qubits through magnetic field engineering

Bektur Abdisatarov, Tanay Roy, Daniel Bafia +10

The coherence of superconducting transmon qubits is often disrupted by fluctuations in the energy relaxation time (T1), limiting their performance for quantum computing. While back…

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-ph2025★ 1 cited

Floquet-engineered fast SNAP gates in weakly coupled circuit-QED systems

Xinyuan You, Andy C. Y. Li, Tanay Roy +5

Superconducting cavities with high quality factors, coupled to a fixed-frequency transmon, provide a state-of-the-art platform for quantum information storage and manipulation. The…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Quantifying Trapped Magnetic Vortex Losses in Niobium Resonators at mK Temperatures

D. Bafia, B. Abdisatarov, R. Pilipenko +4

Trapped magnetic vortices in niobium introduce microwave losses that degrade the performance of superconducting resonators. While such losses have been extensively studied above 1~…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 44 cited

Strong Meissner screening change in superconducting radio frequency cavities due to mild baking

A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, F. Barkov +3

We investigate "hot" regions with anomalous high field dissipation in bulk niobium superconducting radio frequency cavities for particle accelerators by using low energy muon spin…

cond-mat.supr-con2013★ 28 cited

Dependence of the microwave surface resistance of superconducting niobium on the magnitude of the rf field

A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino

Utilizing difference in temperature dependencies we decoupled BCS and residual components of the microwave surface resistance of superconducting niobium at all rf fields up to $B_\…