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Lithium niobate (LN) is a promising material for building acoustic resonators used in quantum applications, but its performance is limited by poorly understood material defects called two-level systems (TLS). In this work, we fabricate…

Superconducting quantum computing architectures comprise resonators and qubits that experience energy loss due to two-level systems (TLS) in bulk and interfacial dielectrics. Understanding these losses is critical to improving performance…

$1/f$ noise caused by microscopic Two-Level Systems (TLS) is known to be very detrimental to the performance of superconducting quantum devices but the nature of these TLS is still poorly understood. Recent experiments with superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jonathan Burnett , Lara Faoro , Tobias Lindstrom

Two-level systems (TLS) of unclear physical origin are a major contributor to decoherence in superconducting qubits. The interactions of individual TLS with a qubit can be detected via various spectroscopic methods, most of which have…

We have investigated dielectric losses in amorphous SiO thin films under operating conditions of superconducting qubits (mK temperatures and low microwave powers). For this purpose, we have developed a broadband measurement setup employing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-07-04 S. T. Skacel , Ch. Kaiser , S. Wuensch , H. Rotzinger , A. Lukashenko , M. Jerger , G. Weiss , M. Siegel , A. V. Ustinov

We perform an experimental and numerical study of dielectric loss in superconducting microwave resonators at low temperature. Dielectric loss, due to two-level systems, is a limiting factor in several applications, e.g. superconducting…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 David Niepce , Jonathan Burnett , Martí Gutierrez Latorre , Jonas Bylander

Two-level system (TLS) defects constitute a major decoherence source of quantum information science, but they are generally less understood at material interfaces than in deposited films. Here we study surface TLSs at the metal-air…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Chih-Chiao Hung , Tim Kohler , Kevin D. Osborn

Microscopic two-level systems (TLS) -- ubiquitous atomic-scale defects in solid-state quantum devices -- are a dominant source of qubit decoherence, yet their role is often considered local and short-memoried. Here, we report the…

A major issue for the implementation of large scale superconducting quantum circuits is the interaction with interfacial two-level system defects (TLS) that leads to qubit relaxation and impedes qubit operation in certain frequency ranges…

Measuring the internal quality factor of coplanar waveguide superconducting resonators is an established method of determining small losses in superconducting devices. Traditionally, the resonator losses are only attributed to two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Ashish Alexander , Christopher G. Weddle , Christopher J. K. Richardson

Noise and decoherence due to spurious two-level systems (TLS) located at material interfaces is a long-standing issue in solid state quantum technologies. Efforts to mitigate the effects of TLS have been hampered by a lack of surface…

We present measurements of the temperature-dependent frequency shift of five niobium superconducting coplanar waveguide microresonators with center strip widths ranging from 3 $\mu$m to 50 $\mu$m, taken at temperatures in the range 100-800…

Atomic sized two-level systems (TLSs) in amorphous dielectrics are known as a major source of loss in superconducting devices. In addition, individual TLS are known to induce large frequency shifts due to strong coupling to the devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Naftali Kirsh , Elisha Svetitsky , Alexander L. Burin , Moshe Schechter , Nadav Katz

Two-level systems (TLS) are an important, if not dominant, source of loss and noise for superconducting resonators such as those used in kinetic inductance detectors and some quantum information science platforms. They are similarly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-07 Fabien Defrance , Andrew D. Beyer , Shibo Shu , Jack Sayers , Sunil R. Golwala

Superconducting coplanar waveguide (SCPW) resonators, key components for quantum computing and sensing applications, require a high internal quality factor (Qi) for effective qubit readout and quantum sensing applications. Minimizing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-03 Bongkeon Kim , Yong-Joo Doh

Epitaxially-grown superconductor/dielectric/superconductor trilayers have the potential to form high-performance superconducting quantum devices and may even allow scalable superconducting quantum computing with low-surface-area qubits such…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 C. R. H. McRae , A. McFadden , R. Zhao , H. Wang , J. L. Long , T. Zhao , S. Park , M. Bal , C. J. Palmstrøm , D. P. Pappas

Solid-state devices used for quantum computation and quantum sensing applications are adversely affected by loss and noise caused by spurious, charged two-level systems (TLS) and stray paramagnetic spins. These two sources of noise are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Aditya Jayaraman , Andrey V. Danilov , Jonas Bylander , Sergey E. Kubatkin

Although the main loss channel of planar microwave superconducting resonators has been identified to be related to an external coupling to a two-level system (TLS) bath, the behavior of such a cavity in the presence of an off-resonant pump…

Transmon qubits are a cornerstone of modern superconducting quantum computing platforms. Temporal fluctuations of energy relaxation in these qubits are widely attributed to microscopic two-level systems (TLSs) in device dielectrics and…

Tow-level system (TLS) loss in amorphous dielectric materials has been intensively studied at millikelvin temperatures due to its impact on superconducting qubit devices and incoherent detectors. However, the significance of TLS loss in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Wenelei Shan , Shohei Ezaki