SQMS Center

Science Highlights

Saving qubits from lossy oxides

Unique qubit fabrication technique enables systematic improvements in performance of superconducting devices for quantum computing, communication, and sensing

Identifying potential nanoscale sources of decoherence in Nb superconducting qubits

Insights regarding defects in the surface oxide help inform new methods for improving qubit coherence 

Disentangling the sources of ionizing radiation in a typical qubit chip

Identifying the sources of radioactivity enables the development of appropriate strategies for their mitigation

Benchmarking variational quantum eigensolvers for the Kitaev model

Advancing variational quantum algorithms on NISQ devices

Probing superconducting state properties of Nb films used in superconducting qubits

Studying superconducting state properties reveals material imperfections limiting qubit coherence 

On the hunt for dark matter, with entangled haloscopes

Exploring the role of entanglement for next-generation detector technology, with applications to fundamental physics