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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…

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

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…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

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…

quant-ph2023★ 123 cited

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…