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We study the possibility to use frequency dependent damping in RSFQ circuits as means to reduce dissipation and consequent decoherence in RSFQ/qubit circuits. We show that stable RSFQ operation can be achieved by shunting the Josephson…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Hassel , H. Seppa , P. Helisto

Radio-frequency (RF) signal generators are standard laboratory equipment and a wide-range of open-source and commercial devices exists to address their many applications. Nonetheless, only few expensive and proprietary solutions can be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-17 Michele Sorelli , Marco Marchetti , Pietro Ricci , Domenico Alfieri , Vladislav Gavryusev , Francesco Saverio Pavone

Qubits are the basic building blocks of a quantum processor which require electromagnetic pulses in giga hertz frequency range and latency in nanoseconds for control and readout. In this paper, we address three main challenges associated…

Cell-based design of a single-flux-quantum (SFQ) digital circuit requires input-output consistency; every output signal must be consumed only once by the input of the following component, which is a unique constraint, unlike the traditional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mebuki Oishi , Sun Tanaka , Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki

We believe that the best chance to observe macroscopic quantum coherence (MQC) in a rf-SQUID qubit is to use on-chip RSFQ digital circuits for preparing, evolving and reading out the qubit's quantum state. This approach allows experiments…

We propose a quantum processor for the scalable quantum computation on microwave photons in distant one-dimensional superconducting resonators. It is composed of a common resonator R acting as a quantum bus and some distant resonators $r_j$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Ming Hua , Ming-Jie Tao , Fu-Guo Deng

As quantum computing processors increase in size, there is growing interest in developing cryogenic electronics to overcome significant challenges to system scaling. Single flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits offer a promising alternative to…

Single flux quantum technology has the potential to enhance readout and control of superconducting quantum systems due to their low energy consumption, high speed, and cryogenic operating temperatures. Current cryogenic readout and control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Gregory Cunningham , Yufeng Ye , Kaidong Peng , Alec Yen , Jessica Kedziora , Kevin P. O'Brien

Neutral atom Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are emerging as a popular quantum computing technology due to their large qubit counts and flexible connectivity. However, performance challenges arise as large circuits experience significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Francisco Romão , Daniel Vonk , Emmanuil Giortamis , Dennis Sprokholt , Pramod Bhatotia

We introduce a technique to control the macroscopic quantum state of an rf SQUID qubit. We propose to employ a stream of single flux quantum (SFQ) pulses magnetically coupled to the qubit junction to momentarily suppresses its critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Xingxiang Zhou , Jonathan L. Habif , Mark F. Bocko , Marc J. Feldman

We present a gradient-based method to construct high-fidelity, two-qubit quantum gates in a system consisting of two transmon qubits coupled via a tunable coupler. In particular, we focus on single flux quantum (SFQ) pulses as a promising…

Electronic systems for qubit control and measurement serve as a bridge between quantum programming language and quantum information processors. With the rapid development of superconducting quantum circuit (SQC) technology, synchronization…

We describe an approach to the integrated control and measurement of a large-scale superconducting multiqubit circuit using a proximal coprocessor based on the Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) digital logic family. Coherent control is realized by…

Rapid single-flux quantum (RSFQ), a leading cryogenic superconductive electronics (SCE) technology, offers extremely low power dissipation and high speed. However, implementing RSFQ systems at VLSI complexity faces challenges, such as…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Rassul Bairamkulov , Mingfei Yu , Giovanni De Micheli

The performance of quantum processors in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era is severely constrained by environmental noise and other uncertainties. While the recently proposed quantum control robustness landscape (QCRL) offers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Yang He , Zigui Zhang , Zibo Miao

Developing state-of-the-art classical simulators of quantum circuits is of utmost importance to test and evaluate early quantum technology and understand the true potential of full-blown error-corrected quantum computers. In the past few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Salvatore Mandrà , Jeffrey Marshall , Eleanor G. Rieffel , Rupak Biswas

This paper proposes a cost-effective architecture for an RF pulse generator for superconducting qubits. Most existing works use arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) that require both a large amount of high-bandwidth memories and…

In this paper, we propose a semi-formal verification framework for single-flux quantum (SFQ) circuits called VeriSFQ, using the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) standard. The considered SFQ technology is superconducting digital…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Alvin D. Wong , Kevin Su , Hang Sun , Arash Fayyazi , Massoud Pedram , Shahin Nazarian

Superconductor single flux quantum (SFQ) technology is attractive for neuromorphic computing due to low energy dissipation and high, potentially up to 100 GHz, clock rates. We have recently suggested a new family of bioSFQ circuits (V.K.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Vasili K. Semenov , Evan B. Golden , Sergey K. Tolpygo