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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…

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Semiconductor-based superconducting qubits offer a versatile platform for studying hybrid quantum devices in circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) architecture. Most of these cQED experiments utilize coplanar waveguides, where the…

Spin qubits have emerged as a leading platform for quantum information processing due to their long coherence times, small footprint, and compatibility with the existing semiconductor industry. We first provide an introduction to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Z. M. McIntyre , Abhikbrata Sarkar , Daniel Loss

Superconducting qubits are solid state electrical circuits fabricated using techniques borrowed from conventional integrated circuits. They are based on the Josephson tunnel junction, the only non-dissipative, strongly non-linear circuit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. H. Devoret , A. Wallraff , J. M. Martinis

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

Superconducting protected qubits aim to achieve sufficiently low error rates so as to allow realization of error-corrected, utility-scale quantum computers. A recent proposal encodes a protected qubit in the quasicharge degree of freedom of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Nicholas M. Christopher , Deniz E. Stiegemann , Abhijeet Alase , Thomas M. Stace

The co-integration of spin, superconducting, and topological systems is emerging as an exciting pathway for scalable and high-fidelity quantum information technology. High-mobility planar germanium is a front-runner semiconductor for…

Josephson junctions constructed from superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures have been used to realize a variety of voltage-tunable superconducting quantum devices, including qubits and parametric amplifiers. To date…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Utkan Güngördü , Rusko Ruskov , Silas Hoffman , Kyle Serniak , Andrew J. Kerman , Charles Tahan

We propose a novel architecture that utilizes two 0-$\pi$ qubits based on topological Josephson junctions to implement a parity-protected superconducting qubit. The topological Josephson junctions provides protection against fabrication…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Guo-Liang Guo , Han-Bing Leng , Xin Liu

The development of quantum circuits based on hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson junctions holds promise for exploring their mesoscopic physics and for building novel superconducting devices. The gate-tunable superconducting…

Hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson field-effect transistors (JoFETs) function as Josephson junctions with a gate-tunable critical current. Additionally, they can feature a non-sinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR) containing…

In recent years semiconducting qubits have undergone a remarkable evolution, making great strides in overcoming decoherence as well as in prospects for scalability, and have become one of the leading contenders for the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Anasua Chatterjee , Paul Stevenson , Silvano De Franceschi , Andrea Morello , Nathalie de Leon , Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Coherence of superconducting qubits can be improved by implementing designs that protect the parity of Cooper pairs on superconducting islands. Here, we introduce a parity-protected qubit based on voltage-controlled semiconductor nanowire…

Quantum processing units (QPUs) based on superconducting Josephson junctions promise significant advances in quantum computing. However, they face critical challenges. Decoherence, scalability limitations, and error correction overhead…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-04 Omid Mohebi , Alireza Hesam Mohseni

The superconducting qubit quantum computer is one of the most promising quantum computing architectures for large-scale integration due to its maturity and close proximity to the well-established semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hiu Yung Wong

With the discovery of Majorana quasiparticles in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures, topologically protected qubits have emerged as a promising contender for quantum information processing. While the construction of a universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Alex Thomson , Falko Pientka

Quantum states are usually fragile which makes quantum computation being not as stable as classical computation. Quantum correction codes can protect quantum states but need a large number of physical qubits to code a single logic qubit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Guo-Liang Guo , Han-Bing Leng , Yong Hu , Xin Liu

Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid materials have been extensively used for experiments on electrically tunable quantum devices. Notably, Josephson junctions utilizing nanowire weak links have enabled a number of new gate-tunable qubits,…

Great interest revolves around the development of new strategies to efficiently store and manipulate quantum information in a robust and decoherence-free fashion. Several proposals have been put forward to encode information into qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Alessio Calzona , Matteo Carrega

Superconducting circuits are exceptionally flexible, enabling many different devices from sensors to quantum computers. Separately, epitaxial semiconductor devices such as spin qubits in silicon offer more limited device variation but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-03 Yun-Pil Shim , Charles Tahan