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Large superconducting quantum circuits have a number of important applications in quantum computing. Accurately predicting the performance of these devices from first principles is challenging, as it requires solving the many-body…

We present a theory of a flux-tunable superconducting qubit, the "Fraunhofer qubit," based on the Fraunhofer interference in a wide ballistic Josephson junction. As magnetic flux threads the junction, the Josephson potential is effectively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Longyu Ma , Tony Liu , Javad Shabani , Kasra Sardashti , Vladimir E. Manucharyan , Maxim G. Vavilov

Leveraging the higher harmonics content of the Josephson potential in a superconducting circuit offers a promising route in the search for new qubits with increased protection against decoherence. In this work, we demonstrate how the flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 G. Giavaras , Ruben Seoane Souto , Maria Jose Calderon , Ramon Aguado

In a system of two tunable-frequency qubits, it is well-known that adiabatic tuning into strong coupling-interaction regions between the qubit subspace and the rest of the Hilbert space can be used to generate an effective controlled Z…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Vihaan Dheer

We present a tradeoff between leakage and pure dephasing errors for the fluxonium circuit. We show that in the insulating regime, i.e., when the persistent current flowing across the circuit is suppressed, the pure dephasing rate decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 David A. Herrera-Martí , Ahsan Nazir , Sean D. Barrett

For successful realization of a quantum computer, its building blocks (qubits) should be simultaneously scalable and sufficiently protected from environmental noise. Recently, a novel approach to the protection of superconducting qubits has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 Sergey Gladchenko , David Olaya , Eva Dupont-Ferrier , Benoit Doucot , Lev B. Ioffe , Michael E. Gershenson

Native multiqubit gates could be essential for bridging the gap from current noisy devices to future utility-scale quantum computers, as they can substantially reduce circuit depth for near-term applications on noisy devices and may also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Peng Zhao , Peng Xu , Zheng-Yuan Xue

Applications for noisy intermediate-scale quantum computing devices rely on the efficient entanglement of many qubits to reach a potential quantum advantage. Although entanglement is typically generated using two-qubit gates, direct control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Niklas J. Glaser , Federico Roy , Stefan Filipp

Fully tunable flux qubits offer in-situ and independent controls of their energy potential asymmetry and tunnel barrier, making them versatile tools for quantum computation and the study of decoherence sources. However, only short coherence…

In the endeavour to make quantum computers a reality, integrated superconducting circuits have become a promising architecture. A major challenge of this approach is decoherence originating from spurious atomic tunneling defects at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Jürgen Lisenfeld , Alexander Bilmes , Alexey V. Ustinov

This study employs advanced phase-field modeling to investigate Si-based qubit MOSFETs, integrating electrostatics and quantum mechanical effects. We adopt a comprehensive modeling approach, utilizing full-wave treatment of the Schrodinger…

Although the Gaussian-noise assumption is widely adopted in the study of qubit decoherence, non-Gaussian noise sources, especially the strong discrete fluctuators, have been detected in many qubits. It remains an important task to further…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Ziwen Huang , Xinyuan You , Ugur Alyanak , Alexander Romanenko , Anna Grassellino , Shaojiang Zhu

Superconducting qubit designs vary in complexity from single- and few-junction systems, such as the transmon and flux qubits, to the many-junction fluxonium. Here we consider the question of wether the many degrees of freedom in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-24 G. Viola , G. Catelani

Superconducting qubits offer an unprecedentedly high degree of flexibility in terms of circuit encoding and parameter choices. However, in designing the qubit parameters one typically faces the conflicting goals of long coherence times and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 C. A. Siegele , A. A. Sokolova , L. N. Kapoor , F. Hassani , J. M. Fink

We propose to use the quantum properties of a superconducting flux qubit in the construction of a magnetometer with quantum limited sensitivity. The main advantage of a flux qubit is that its noise is rather low, and its transfer functions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Il'ichev , Ya. S. Greenberg

We replace the Josephson junction defining a three-junction flux qubit's properties with a tunable direct current superconducting quantum interference devices (DC-SQUID) in order to tune the qubit gap during the experiment. We observe…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Xiaobo Zhu , Alexander Kemp , Shiro Saito , Kouichi Semba

In a Josephson phase qubit the coherent manipulations of the computational states are achieved by modulating an applied ac current, typically in the microwave range. In this work we show that it is possible to find optimal modulations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Shabnam Safaei , Simone Montangero , Fabio Taddei , Rosario Fazio

Fast tuning of the transition frequency of superconducting qubits using magnetic flux is essential, for example, for realizing high-fidelity two-qubit gates with low leakage or for reducing errors in dispersive qubit readout. To apply…

The protection of qubit coherence is an essential task in order to build a practical quantum computer able to manipulate, store and read quantum information with a high degree of fidelity. Recently, it has been proposed to increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Sylvain Bertaina , Hervé Vezin , Hans De Raedt , Irinel Chiorescu

Quantum phenomena have the potential to speed up the solution of hard optimization problems. For example quantum annealing, based on the quantum tunneling effect, has recently been shown to scale exponentially better with system size as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Simon E. Nigg , Niels Loerch , Rakesh P. Tiwari