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We have proposed and experimentally verified a tunable inter-qubit coupling scheme for large-scale integration of superconducting qubits. The key feature of the scheme is the insertion of connecting pads between qubit and tunable coupling…

Tunable couplers are a key building block of superconducting quantum processors, enabling high on-off ratios for two-qubit entangling interactions. While qubit-qubit interaction can be turned off, residual wavefunctions delocalize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Zhongyi Jiang , Simon Geisert , Sören Ihssen , Ioan M. Pop , Mohammad H. Ansari

Unwanted $ZZ$ interaction is a quantum-mechanical crosstalk phenomenon which correlates qubit dynamics and is ubiquitous in superconducting qubit systems. It adversely affects the quality of quantum operations and can be detrimental in…

The development of high-fidelity two-qubit quantum gates is essential for digital quantum computing. Here, we propose and realize an all-microwave parametric Controlled-Z (CZ) gates by coupling strength modulation in a superconducting…

The superconducting fluxonium circuit is an artificial atom with a strongly anharmonic spectrum: when biased at a half flux quantum, the lowest qubit transition is an order of magnitude smaller in frequency than those to higher levels.…

Entangling gates between neighboring physical qubits are essential for quantum error correction. Implementing them in an all-microwave manner simplifies signal routing and control apparatus of superconducting quantum processors. We propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Shotaro Shirai , Shinichi Inoue , Shuhei Tamate , Rui Li , Yasunobu Nakamura , Atsushi Noguchi

A major challenge in the field of quantum computing is the construction of scalable qubit coupling architectures. Here, we demonstrate a novel tuneable coupling circuit that allows superconducting qubits to be coupled over long distances.…

Superconducting fluxonium qubits provide a promising alternative to transmons on the path toward large-scale superconductor-based quantum computing due to their better coherence and larger anharmonicity. A major challenge for multi-qubit…

Enhancing the capabilities of superconducting quantum hardware, requires higher gate fidelities and lower crosstalk, particularly in larger scale devices, in which qubits are coupled to multiple neighbors. Progress towards both of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Lukas Heunisch , Christopher Eichler , Michael J. Hartmann

Superconducting qubits have achieved remarkable progress in gate fidelity and coherence, yet their typical nearest-neighbor connectivity presents constraints for implementing complex quantum circuits. Here, we introduce a cavity-mediated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Shinyoung Hwang , Sangyeon Lee , Eunjong Kim

For building a scalable quantum processor with superconducting qubits, ZZ interaction is of great concern because its residual has a crucial impact to two-qubit gate fidelity. Two-qubit gates with fidelity meeting the criterion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Peng Zhao , Peng Xu , Dong Lan , Ji Chu , Xinsheng Tan , Haifeng Yu , Yang Yu

A major challenge for scaling up superconducting quantum computers is unwanted couplings between qubits, which lead to always-on ZZ couplings that impact gate fidelities by shifting energy levels conditional on qubit states. To tackle this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Simon Pettersson Fors , Jorge Fernández-Pendás , Anton Frisk Kockum

In recent years, several architectures have been proposed for implementing two-qubit operations on fluxonium superconducting qubits. A particularly promising approach, which was demonstrated experimentally by Refs. [1,2], employs a transmon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Martijn F. S. Zwanenburg , Christian Kraglund Andersen

We introduce a new entangling gate between two fixed-frequency qubits statically coupled via a microwave resonator bus which combines the following desirable qualities: all-microwave control, appreciable qubit separation for reduction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Jerry M. Chow , Jay M. Gambetta , Andrew W. Cross , Seth T. Merkel , Chad Rigetti , M. Steffen

Tunable couplers enable high-fidelity two-qubit gates leveraging high on/off coupling ratios and reduced crosstalk within a single design. We investigate a galvanically connected direct-current superconducting quantum interference device…

Parasitic crosstalk in superconducting quantum devices is a leading limitation for quantum gates. We demonstrate the suppression of static ZZ crosstalk in a two-qubit, two-coupler superconducting circuit, where the frequency of a tunable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Pranav S. Mundada , Gengyan Zhang , Thomas Hazard , Andrew A. Houck

We discuss a practical design for tunably coupling a pair of flux qubits via the quantum inductance of a third high-frequency qubit. The design is particularly well suited for realizing a recently proposed microwave-induced parametric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Antti O. Niskanen , Yasunobu Nakamura , Jaw-Shen Tsai

High-fidelity parametric gates have been demonstrated with superconducting qubits via rf flux modulation of the qubit frequency. The modulation however leads to renormalization of the bare qubit-qubit coupling, thereby reducing the gate…

Recent progress in superconducting qubits has demonstrated the potential of these devices for the future of quantum information processing. One desirable feature for quantum computing is independent control of qubit interactions as well as…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-06-14 S. J. Srinivasan , A. J. Hoffman , J. M. Gambetta , A. A. Houck

High-fidelity two-qubit entangling gates are essential building blocks for fault-tolerant quantum computers. Over the past decade, tremendous efforts have been made to develop scalable high-fidelity two-qubit gates with superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Ji Chu , Fei Yan