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Mechanically induced correlated errors on superconducting qubits with relaxation times exceeding 0.4 ms

Tobias Kippenberg, Marco Scigliuzzo, Amir Youssefi, Jiahe Pan, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono, Xuxin Wang

Superconducting qubits are among the most advanced candidates for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. Despite recent significant advancements in the qubit lifetimes, the origin of the loss mechanism for state-of-the-art qubits is still subject to i ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Ultra-high quantum coherent and scalable superconducting circuit optomechanics, from topological lattices to quantum storage

Amir Youssefi

Mechanical oscillators can exhibit modes with ultra-low energy dissipation and compact form factors due to the slow velocity of acoustic waves, and are already used in applications ranging from timing to wireless filters. Over the past decade, novel ways i ...

EPFL2024

Emergence of highly coherent two-level systems in a noisy and dense quantum network

Sandrine Gerber, Gabriel Aeppli

Quantum sensors and qubits are usually two-level systems (TLS), the quantum analogues of classical bits assuming binary values 0 or 1. They are useful to the extent to which superpositions of 0 and 1 persist despite a noisy environment. The standard prescr ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Three-wave-mixing quantum-limited kinetic inductance parametric amplifier operating at 6 T near 1 K

Pasquale Scarlino, Simone Frasca, Guillaume Beaulieu, Camille René Charles Roy

Parametric amplifiers play a crucial role in modern quantum technology by enabling the enhancement of weak signals with minimal added noise. Traditionally, Josephson junctions have been the primary choice for constructing parametric amplifiers. Nevertheles ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Quantum Error Correction and Simulation in Open Bosonic Systems

David Schlegel

Quantum computers have the potential to surpass conventional computing, but they are hindered by noise which induces errors that ultimately lead to the loss of quantum information. This necessitates the development of quantum error correction strategies fo ...

EPFL2024

Programmable frequency-bin quantum states in a nano-engineered silicon device

Matteo Galli, Marco Clementi

Frequency-bin qubits get the best of time-bin and dual-rail encodings, but require external modulators and pulse shapers to build arbitrary states. Here, instead, the authors work directly on-chip by controlling the interference of biphoton amplitudes gene ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Mitigation of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors

Marco Scigliuzzo

The reproducibility of qubit parameters is a challenge for scaling up superconducting quantum processors. Signal cross talk imposes constraints on the frequency separation between neighboring qubits. The frequency uncertainty of transmon qubits arising fro ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Silicon spin qubits from laboratory to industry

Edoardo Charbon

Quantum computation (QC) is one of the most challenging quantum technologies that promise to revolutionize data computation in the long-term by outperforming the classical supercomputers in specific applications. Errors will hamper this quantum revolution ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Quantum process tomography with unsupervised learning and tensor networks

Giuseppe Carleo

The impressive pace of advance of quantum technology calls for robust and scalable techniques for the characterization and validation of quantum hardware. Quantum process tomography, the reconstruction of an unknown quantum channel from measurement data, r ...

Nature Portfolio2023

High-Kinetic Inductance Superconducting Technology for Quantum Applications

Simone Frasca

Superconducting materials present unique properties, which make a potential technological platform based on superconductors extremely appealing for a wide set of applications, both classical and not. Among these classes of materials, high-kinetic inductanc ...

EPFL2023

Erbium and thulium on MgO(100)/Ag(100) as candidates for single atom qubits

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Fabio Donati, Aparajita Singha, Edgar Fernandes

Lanthanide atoms on surfaces are an exceptional platform for atomic-scale magnetic information storage. However, their potential as qubits remains unexplored due to the limited number of experimental setups that can coherently drive the spins of single ada ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Optimizing Quantum Compilers: Efficient and Effective Algorithms

Fereshte Mozafari Ghoraba

Quantum computing has made significant progress in recent years, with Google and IBM releasing quantum computers with 72 and 50 qubits, respectively. Google has also achieved quantum supremacy with its 54-qubit device, and IBM has announced the release of ...

EPFL2023

Experimental QND measurements of complementarity on two-qubit states with IonQ and IBM Q quantum computers

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Valeria Vento, Nicolas Schwaller

We report the experimental nondemolition measurement of coherence, predictability and concurrence on a system of two qubits. The quantum circuits proposed by De Melo et al. (Phys Rev Lett 98(25):250501, 2007) are implemented on IBM Q (superconducting circu ...

SPRINGER2022

A Cryo-CMOS PLL for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon

This article presents the first cryogenic phase-locked loop (PLL) operating at 4.2 K. The PLL is designed for the control system of scalable quantum computers. The specifications of PLL are derived from the required control fidelity for a single-qubit oper ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Variational dynamics as a ground-state problem on a quantum computer

Giuseppe Carleo, Filippo Vicentini, Stefano Barison

We propose a variational quantum algorithm to study the real-time dynamics of quantum systems as a ground -state problem. The method is based on the original proposal of Feynman and Kitaev to encode time into a register of auxiliary qubits. We prepare the ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

A Cryo-CMOS Oscillator With an Automatic Common-Mode Resonance Calibration for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon

This article presents a 4-to-5 GHz LC oscillator operating at 4.2K for quantum computing applications. The phase noise (PN) specification of the oscillator is derived based on the control fidelity for a single-qubit operation. To reveal the substantial gap ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Observation of SQUID-Like Behavior in Fiber Laser with Intra-Cavity Epsilon-Near-Zero Effect

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Jiaye Wu

Establishing relations between fundamental effects in far-flung areas of physics is a subject of great interest in the current research. Realization of a novel photonic system akin to the radio-frequency superconducting quantum interference device (RF-SQUI ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Controlling Atom-Photon Bound States in an Array of Josephson-Junction Resonators

Pasquale Scarlino, Marco Scigliuzzo

Engineering the electromagnetic environment of a quantum emitter gives rise to a plethora of exotic light -matter interactions. In particular, photonic lattices can seed long-lived atom-photon bound states inside photonic band gaps. Here, we report on the ...

American Physical Society2022

Superconducting quantum interference at the atomic scale

Klaus Kern, Haonan Huang

A single spin in a Josephson junction can reverse the flow of the supercurrent by changing the sign of the superconducting phase difference across it. At mesoscopic length scales, these pi-junctions are employed in various applications, such as finding the ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Energy Efficient Sensing using Steep Slope Devices

Teodor Rosca

Today, we are witnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, which facilitates and improves our lives in many aspects, but comes with several challenges related to the technology deployment at large scales. Handling ever growing amounts of information ...

EPFL2022