Emulating two qubits with a four-level transmon qudit for variational quantum algorithms
Quantum Science and Technology IOP Publishing 9:3 (2024) 035003
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Using quantum systems with more than two levels, or qudits, can scale the computational space of quantum processors more efficiently than using qubits, which may offer an easier physical implementation for larger Hilbert spaces. However, individual qudits may exhibit larger noise, and algorithms designed for qubits require to be recompiled to qudit algorithms for execution. In this work, we implemented a two-qubit emulator using a 4-level superconducting transmon qudit for variational quantum algorithm applications and analyzed its noise model. The major source of error for the variational algorithm was readout misclassification error and amplitude damping. To improve the accuracy of the results, we applied error-mitigation techniques to reduce the effects of the misclassification and qudit decay event. The final predicted energy value is within the range of chemical accuracy.</jats:p>Searching for wave-like dark matter with QSHS
SciPost Physics Proceedings SciPost 12 (2023) 40
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In 2021 the Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector (QSHS) collaboration was founded in the UK and received funding to develop and demonstrate quantum devices with the potential to detect hidden sector particles in the μeV to 100 μeV mass window. The collaboration has been developing a range of devices. It is building a high-field, low-temperature facility at the University of Sheffield to characterise and test the devices in a haloscope geometry. This paper introduces the collaboration's motivation, aims, and progress.High coherence and low cross-talk in a tileable 3D integrated superconducting circuit architecture.
Science advances 8:16 (2022) eabl6698
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We report high qubit coherence as well as low cross-talk and single-qubit gate errors in a superconducting circuit architecture that promises to be tileable to two-dimensional (2D) lattices of qubits. The architecture integrates an inductively shunted cavity enclosure into a design featuring nongalvanic out-of-plane control wiring and qubits and resonators fabricated on opposing sides of a substrate. The proof-of-principle device features four uncoupled transmon qubits and exhibits average energy relaxation times T1 = 149(38) μs, pure echoed dephasing times Tϕ,e = 189(34) μs, and single-qubit gate fidelities F = 99.982(4)% as measured by simultaneous randomized benchmarking. The 3D integrated nature of the control wiring means that qubits will remain addressable as the architecture is tiled to form larger qubit lattices. Band structure simulations are used to predict that the tiled enclosure will still provide a clean electromagnetic environment to enclosed qubits at arbitrary scale.Spatial Charge Sensitivity in a Multimode Superconducting Qubit
Physical Review Applied American Physical Society (APS) 17:2 (2022) 024058
Radio-frequency characterization of a supercurrent transistor made of a carbon nanotube
Materials for Quantum Technology IOP Publishing 1:3 (2021) 035003