Superfluid helium's low-loss dielectric properties, excellent thermal conductivity, and unique collective excitations make it an attractive candidate to incorporate into superconducting qubit systems. We controllably immerse a three-dimensional superconducting transmon qubit in superfluid helium-4 and measure the spectroscopic and coherence properties of the system. We find that the cavity, the qubit, and their coupling are all modified by the superfluid, which we analyze within the framework of circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED). At at temperatures relevant to quantum computing experiments, the energy relaxation time of the qubit is not significantly changed by the presence of the superfluid, while the pure dephasing time modestly increases, which we attribute to improved thermalization of the microwave environment via the superfluid.
@article{arxiv.1907.07730,
title = {Integrating superfluids with superconducting qubit systems},
author = {J. R. Lane and D. Tan and N. R. Beysengulov and K. Nasyedkin and E. Brook and L. Zhang and T. Stefanski and H. Byeon and K. W. Murch and J. Pollanen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07730},
year = {2020}
}