15 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…