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We report on design and fabrication of a new type of flux qubit that capitalizes on intrinsic properties of submicron YBCO grain boundary junctions. The operating point is protected from the fluctuations of the external fields, already on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. S. Amin , A. Yu. Smirnov , A. M. Zagoskin , T. Lindstrom , S. Charlebois , T. Claeson , A. Ya. Tzalenchuk

Aluminum-based Josephson junctions are currently the main sources of nonlinearity for control and manipulation of superconducting qubits. A phase-slip junction, the dual of a Josephson junction, provides an alternative source of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-09 Cheeranjeev Purmessur , Kaicheung Chow , Bernard van Heck , Angela Kou

We propose how to realize a multiqubit tunable phase gate of one qubit simultaneously controlling $n$ qubits with four-level quantum systems in a cavity or coupled to a resonator. Each of the $n$ two-qubit controlled-phase (CP) gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chui-Ping Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng , Franco Nori

We propose a qubit-qubit coupling scheme for superconducting flux quantum bits (qubits), where a quantized Josephson junction resonator and microwave irradiation are utilized. The junction is used as a tunable inductance controlled by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Nakano , K. Kakuyanagi , M. Ueda , K. Semba

We propose a coupling scheme for the three-Josephson junction qubits which uses a connecting loop, but not mutual inductance. Present scheme offers the advantages of a large and tunable level splitting in implementing the controlled-NOT…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mun Dae Kim , Jongbae Hong

On the basis of generations of 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional graph states, we generate a 3-dimensional N3-qubit graph state based on the Josephson charge qubits. Since any two charge qubits can be selectively and effectively coupled by a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Hu Zheng , Zhuo-Liang Cao

There are two elementary superconducting qubit types that derive directly from the quantum harmonic oscillator. In one the inductor is replaced by a nonlinear Josephson junction to realize the widely used charge qubits with a compact phase…

We present a way for fast implementation of a two-qubit controlled phase gate with superconducting flux qubits coupled to a cavity. A distinct feature of this proposal is that since only qubit-cavity resonant interaction and qubit-pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Chui-Ping Yang

A challenge in building large-scale superconducting quantum processors is to find the right balance between coherence, qubit addressability, qubit-qubit coupling strength, circuit complexity and the number of required control lines. Leading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 S. Krinner , P. Kurpiers , B. Royer , P. Magnard , I. Tsitsilin , J. -C. Besse , A. Remm , A. Blais , A. Wallraff

We propose a new qubit consisting of a superconducting ring with two ordinary zero junctions and one ferromagnetic pi junction. In the system, two degenerate stable states appear in the phase space without an external magnetic field because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yamashita , S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We present a scheme to achieve maximally entangled states, controlled phase-shift gate, and SWAP gate for two superconducting-quantum-interference-device (SQUID) qubits, by placing SQUIDs in a microwave cavity. We also show how to transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Chui-Ping Yang , Shih-I Chu , Siyuan Han

Mesoscopic multi-terminal Josephson junctions are novel devices that provide weak coupling between several bulk superconductors through a common normal layer. Because of the nonlocal coupling of the superconducting banks, a current flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. H. S. Amin , A. N. Omelyanchouk , A. Blais , A. Maassen van den Brink , G. Rose , T. Duty , A. M. Zagoskin

We give an arbitrary single-qubit gate compilation scheme on superconducting processors that takes advantage of tuning the phase shift of microwave pulses to obtain a continuous gate set. This scheme is compatible with any two-qubit gate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Jianxin Chen , Dawei Ding , Cupjin Huang , Qi Ye

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

A practical strategy for synchronizing the properties of compound Josephson junction rf-SQUID qubits on a multiqubit chip has been demonstrated. The impacts of small ($\sim1%$) fabrication variations in qubit inductance and critical current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Harris , F. Brito , A. J. Berkley , J. Johansson , M. W. Johnson , T. Lanting , P. Bunyk , E. Ladizinsky , B. Bumble , A. Fung , A. Kaul , A. Kleinsasser , S. Han

A scheme for implementing 2-qubit quantum controlled phase gate (QCPG) is proposed with two superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) in a cavity. The gate operations are realized within the two lower flux states of the SQUIDs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Zheng-Yuan Xue , Gang Zhang , Ping Dong , You-Min Yi , Zhuo-Liang Cao

Superconducting circuits can exhibit quantized energy levels and long coherence times. Harnessing the anharmonicity offered by Josephson junctions, such circuits have been successfully employed as qubits, quantum limited amplifiers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Priya Sharma , Jens Koch , Eran Ginossar

Exploiting the intrinsic nonlinearity of superconducting Josephson junctions, we propose a scalable circuit with superconducting qubits (SCQs) which is very similar to the successful one now being used for trapped ions. The SCQs are coupled…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 Yu-xi Liu , L. F. Wei , J. R. Johansson , J. S. Tsai , Franco Nori

A small superconducting electrode (a single-Cooper-pair box) connected to a reservoir via a Josephson junction constitutes an artificial two-level system, in which two charge states that differ by 2e are coupled by tunneling of Cooper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Nakamura , Yu. A. Pashkin , J. S. Tsai

Fixed-frequency qubits can suffer from always-on interactions that inhibit independent control. Here, we address this issue by experimentally demonstrating a superconducting architecture using qubits that comprise of two…