The protection of superconducting qubits from certain noise sources often comes at the cost of increased sensitivity to other decoherence channels. Here, we explore a route to avoid this tradeoff by encoding quantum information in quantum states of a transmon entangled with the spin of a trapped Andreev quasiparticle. We term such devices spinmons. We lift the spinmon Kramers degeneracy by introducing a Zeeman field and develop two routes for full qubit control via electrostatic gates and an AC flux drive, providing multiple directions for experimental implementations. Finally, we compute coherence times and verify the qubit robustness against flux and charge noise sources.
@article{arxiv.2605.12588,
title = {Coherent control of spinmons},
author = {Johanne Bratland Tjernshaugen and Florinda Viñas Boström and Jeroen Danon and Jacob Linder and Karsten Flensberg and Antonio L. R. Manesco},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.12588},
year = {2026}
}