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Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Yu-xi Liu , Hui-Chen Sun , Z. H. Peng , Adam Miranowicz , J. S. Tsai , Franco Nori

The scaling up of trapped-ion quantum processors based on the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture is difficult owing to the extensive electronics and high-density wiring required to control numerous trap electrodes. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Ryutaro Ohira , Shinichi Morisaka , Ippei Nakamura , Atsushi Noguchi , Takefumi Miyoshi

Superconductor electronics fabrication technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory enables the development of VLSI digital circuits with millions of Josephson junctions per square centimeter. However, conventional DC and multi-phase AC…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-02 Vasili K. Semenov , Evan B. Golden , Sergey K. Tolpygo

Quantum circuits utilizing real time feedback techniques (such as active reset and mid-circuit measurement) are a powerful tool for NISQ-era quantum computing. Such techniques are crucial for implementing error correction protocols, and can…

Superconducting microwave circuits form a versatile platform for storing and manipulating quantum information. A major challenge to further scalability is to find approaches for connecting these systems over long distances and at high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Marek Pechal , Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

Extremely long coherence times, excellent single-qubit gate fidelities and two-qubit logic have been demonstrated with silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor spin qubits, making it one of the leading platforms for quantum information processing.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 H. G. J. Eenink , L. Petit , W. I. L. Lawrie , J. S. Clarke , L. M. K. Vandersypen , M. Veldhorst

A key virtue of spin qubits is their sub-micron footprint, enabling a single silicon chip to host the millions of qubits required to execute useful quantum algorithms with error correction. With each physical qubit needing multiple control…

The performance and scalability of superconducting quantum circuits are fundamentally constrained by non-equilibrium quasiparticles, which induce microwave losses that limit resonator quality factors and qubit coherence times. Understanding…

Control architectures that reduce hardware overhead while maintaining high-fidelity operations are essential for the continued scaling of superconducting quantum processors. Here we experimentally realize a unified control architecture for…

This study maps the quantum landscape of superconducting diodes (SDs) \cite{nadeem23} onto the quantum technology architecture, which is currently constrained by fundamental challenges in control and scalability. In the existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Superconducting quantum processors operate at microwave frequencies in millikelvin environments, making it challenging to interconnect distant nodes using conventional microwave wiring. Coherent microwave-to-optical (M2O) transduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Yufeng Wu , Yiyu Zhou , Haoqi Zhao , Danqing Wang , Matthew D. LaHaye , Daniel L. Campbell , Hong X. Tang

Scalable superconducting quantum processors require balancing critical constraints in coherence, control complexity, and spectral crowding. Fixed-frequency architectures suppress flux noise and simplify control via all-microwave operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Kui Zhao , Wei-Guo Ma , Ziting Wang , Hao Li , Kaixuan Huang , Yun-Hao Shi , Kai Xu , Heng Fan

Coherent microwave-to-optical conversion is crucial for transferring quantum information generated in the microwave domain to optical frequencies, where propagation losses can be minimised. Among the various physical platforms that have…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-12-06 Benjamin D. Smith , Bahar Babaei , Andal Narayanan , Lindsay J. LeBlanc

A nonclassical light source is essential for implementing a wide range of quantum information processing protocols, including quantum computing, networking, communication, and metrology. In the microwave regime, propagating photonic qubits…

Multi-mode superconducting circuits offer a promising platform for engineering robust systems for quantum computation. Previous studies indicate that single-mode devices cannot be engineered to simultaneously exhibit resilience against…

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are a crucial tool in a wide array of fields, in particular for quantum communication, where time taggers performance can severely affect the quality of the entire application. Nowadays, FPGA-based TDCs…

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Quantum computing architectures are on the verge of scalability, a key requirement for the implementation of a universal quantum computer. The next stage in this quest is the realization of quantum error correction codes, which will…

Accurate control of qubits is the central requirement for building functional quantum processors. For the current superconducting quantum processor, high-fidelity control of qubits is mainly based on independently calibrated microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Peng Zhao , Ruixia Wang , Mengjun Hu , Teng Ma , Peng Xu , Yirong Jin , Haifeng Yu

- This paper describes a pipeline analog-to-digital converter is implemented for high speed camera. In the pipeline ADC design, prime factor is designing operational amplifier with high gain so ADC have been high speed. The other advantage…

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This work explores avenues and target areas for optimizing FPGA-based control hardware for experiments conducted on superconducting quantum computing systems and serves as an introduction to some of the current research at the intersection…

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