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Electronically-controlled one- and two-qubit gates for transmon quasicharge qubits

Quantum Physics 2026-01-09 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Superconductivity

Abstract

Superconducting protected qubits aim to achieve sufficiently low error rates so as to allow realization of error-corrected, utility-scale quantum computers. A recent proposal encodes a protected qubit in the quasicharge degree of freedom of the conventional transmon device. Operating such a protected `quasicharge qubit' requires implementing new strategies. Here we show that an electronically-controllable tunnel junction formed by two topological superconductors can be used to implement single- and two-qubit gates on quasicharge qubits. Schemes for both these gates are based on the same dynamical 4π4\pi-periodic Josephson effect and therefore have the same gate times and error characteristics. We simulate the dynamics of a topological Josephson junction in a parameter regime with non-negligible charging energy, and characterize the robustness of such gate operations against charge noise. Our results point to a compelling strategy for implementation of quasicharge qubit gates based on junctions of minimal Kitaev chains of quantum dots.

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@article{arxiv.2510.20127,
  title  = {Electronically-controlled one- and two-qubit gates for transmon quasicharge qubits},
  author = {Nicholas M. Christopher and Deniz E. Stiegemann and Abhijeet Alase and Thomas M. Stace},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20127},
  year   = {2026}
}
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