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Engineering high-coherence superconducting qubits

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NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 10, Pages 875-891

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41578-021-00370-4

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  1. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Testbed Program, Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]

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The review explores the major sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits and the trade-offs between simple and complex circuit designs. It also discusses the impact of materials optimization strategies on quantum computing.
Advances in materials science and engineering have played a central role in the development of classical computers and will undoubtedly be critical in propelling the maturation of quantum information technologies. In approaches to quantum computation based on superconducting circuits, as one goes from bulk materials to functional devices, amorphous films and non-equilibrium excitations - electronic and phononic - are introduced, leading to dissipation and fluctuations that limit the computational power of state-of-the-art qubits and processors. In this Review, the major sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits are identified through an exploration of seminal qubit and resonator experiments. The proposed microscopic mechanisms associated with these imperfections are summarized, and directions for future research are discussed. The trade-offs between simple qubit primitives based on a single Josephson tunnel junction and more complex designs that use additional circuit elements, or new junction modalities, to reduce sensitivity to local noise sources are discussed, particularly in the context of materials optimization strategies for each architecture. Superconducting qubits hold great promise for quantum computing, and recently there have been dramatic improvements in both coherence times and the power of quantum processors. This Review explores how the path forward involves balancing circuit complexity and materials perfection, eliminating defects while designing qubits with engineered noise resilience.

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