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The coherent tunnelling of Cooper pairs across Josephson junctions (JJs) generates a nonlinear inductance that is used extensively in quantum information processors based on superconducting circuits, from setting qubit transition…

Quantum processors using superconducting qubits suffer from dielectric loss leading to noise and dissipation. Qubits are usually designed as large capacitor pads connected to a non-linear Josephson junction (or SQUID) by a superconducting…

Current state-of-the-art superconducting microwave qubits are cooled to extremely low temperatures to avoid sources of decoherence. Higher qubit operating temperatures would significantly increase the cooling power available, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Alexander Anferov , Shannon P. Harvey , Fanghui Wan , Jonathan Simon , David I. Schuster

Niobium offers the benefit of increased operating temperatures and frequencies for Josephson junctions, which are the core component of superconducting devices. However existing niobium processes are limited by more complicated fabrication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Alexander Anferov , Kan-Heng Lee , Fang Zhao , Jonathan Simon , David I. Schuster

For a variety of superconducting qubits, tunable interactions are achieved through mutual inductive coupling to a coupler circuit containing a nonlinear Josephson element. In this paper we derive the general interaction mediated by such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-06 Dvir Kafri , Chris Quintana , Yu Chen , Alireza Shabani , John M. Martinis , Hartmut Neven

The processing unit of a solid-state quantum computer consists in an array of coupled qubits, each locally driven with on-chip microwave lines that route carefully-engineered control signals to the qubits in order to perform logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Francesco Cioni , Roberto Menta , Riccardo Aiudi , Marco Polini , Vittorio Giovannetti

We present the solid-state quantum circuits that have been developed in order to implement quantum bits suitable for a quantum processor. These qubits are either based on the quantum state of a single particle (semiconductor qubits), or on…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Esteve , D. Vion

Superconducting diodes, characterized by nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, offer transformative opportunities for ultra-low-power circuits. However, achieving reliable operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen remains a major…

We study a superconducting single-charge transistor, where the coherence of Cooper pair tunneling is destroyed by the coupling to a tunable dissipative environment. Sequential tunneling and cotunneling processes are analyzed to construct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank K. Wilhelm , Gerd Schoen , Gergely T. Zimanyi

All physical implementations of quantum bits (qubits), carrying the information and computation in a putative quantum computer, have to meet the conflicting requirements of environmental decoupling while remaining manipulable through…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. B. Ioffe , M. V. Feigel'man , A. Ioselevich , D. Ivanov , M. Troyer , G. Blatter

Quantum computing is an exciting field that uses quantum principles, such as quantum superposition and entanglement, to tackle complex computational problems. Superconducting quantum circuits, based on Josephson junctions, is one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Yunyan Yao , Liang Xiang

The properties of Josephson devices are strongly affected by geometrical effects. A loop-shaped superconducting electrode tightly couples a long Josephson tunnel junction with the surrounding electromagnetic field. Due to the fluxoid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-04-23 Roberto Monaco

The integration of semiconductor Josephson junctions (JJs) in superconducting quantum circuits provides a versatile platform for hybrid qubits and offers a powerful way to probe exotic quasiparticle excitations. Recent proposals for using…

Circuit quantum electrodynamics systems are typically built from resonators and two-level artificial atoms, but the use of multi-level artificial atoms instead can enable promising applications in quantum technology. Here we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 É. Dumur , B. Küng , A. K. Feofanov , T. Weissl , N. Roch , C. Naud , W. Guichard , O. Buisson

Solid state qubits realized in superconducting circuits are potentially extremely scalable. However, strong decoherence may be transferred to the qubits by various elements of the circuits that couple individual qubits, particularly when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Storcz , J. Vala , K. R. Brown , J. Kempe , F. K. Wilhelm , K. B. Whaley

We have observed coherent time evolution between two quantum states of a superconducting flux qubit comprising three Josephson junctions in a loop. The superposition of the two states carrying opposite macroscopic persistent currents is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Chiorescu , Y. Nakamura , C. J. P. M. Harmans , J. E. Mooij

Josephson junctions made from aluminium and its oxide are the most commonly used functional elements for superconducting circuits and qubits. It is generally known that the disordered thin-film AlOx contains atomic tunneling systems.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-30 Saskia M. Meißner , Arnold Seiler , Jürgen Lisenfeld , Alexey V. Ustinov , Georg Weiss

Superconducting circuits based on Josephson junctions exhibit macroscopic quantum coherence and can behave like artificial atoms. Recent technological advances have made it possible to implement atomic-physics and quantum-optics experiments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Q. You , Franco Nori

Josephson superconducting qubits and parametric amplifiers are prominent examples of superconducting quantum circuits that have shown rapid progress in recent years. With the growing complexity of such devices, the requirements for…

Topological superconductors are appealing building blocks for robust and reliable quantum information processing. Most platforms for engineering topological superconductivity rely on a combination of superconductors, materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ignacio Sardinero , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset