Suppressing relaxation in superconducting qubits by quasiparticle pumping

Authors: Simon Gustavsson, Fei Yan, Gianluigi Catelani, Jonas Bylander, Archana Kamal, Jeffrey Birenbaum, David Hover, Danna Rosenberg, Gabriel Samach, Adam P. Spears, Steven J. Weber, Jonilyn L. Yoder, John Clarke, Andrew J. Kerman, Fumiki Yoshihara, Yasunobu Nakamura, Terry P. Orlando, William D. Oliver First Author’s Primary Affiliation: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Continue reading “Suppressing relaxation in superconducting qubits by quasiparticle pumping”

What can quantum information tell us about the foundations of statistical mechanics?

By Mauro E.S. Morales Title: Entanglement and the foundations of statistical mechanics Authors: Sandu Popescu1,2, Anthony J. Short1, Andreas Winter3. Institutions: 1H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK 2Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, UK 3Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TW, UKContinue reading “What can quantum information tell us about the foundations of statistical mechanics?”

Controlled Dissipation with Superconducting Qubits

This post was sponsored by Tabor Electronics. To keep up to date with Tabor products and applications, join their community on LinkedIn and sign up for their newsletter. Authors: P.M. Harrington, M. Naghiloo, D. Tan, K.W. Murch First Author’s Primary Affiliation: Department of Physics, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130, USA Manuscript: Published in Physical Review A Introduction QuantumContinue reading “Controlled Dissipation with Superconducting Qubits”

Parity measurement in the strong dispersive regime of circuit quantum acoustodynamics

Authors: Uwe von Lüpke, Yu Yang, Marius Bild, Laurent Michaud, Matteo Fadel, and Yiwen Chu First Author’s Primary Affiliation: Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Manuscript: Published in Nature Physics Introduction Superconducting qubits are a promising candidate for functional quantum computation as well as investigating fundamental physics of composite quantum systems where superconducting qubitsContinue reading “Parity measurement in the strong dispersive regime of circuit quantum acoustodynamics”

Quantum Communication with itinerant surface acoustic wave phonons

Authors: E. Dumur, K.J. Satzinger, G.A. Peairs, M-H. Chou, A. Bienfait, H.-S. Chang, C.R. Conner, J. Grebel, R.G. Povey, Y.P. Zhong, A.N. Cleland First Author’s Primary Affiliation: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Manuscript: Published in NPJ Quantum Information Introduction Superconducting qubits are among the state of the artContinue reading “Quantum Communication with itinerant surface acoustic wave phonons”