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Main Authors: Dane, Andrew, Balakrishnan, Karthik, Wacaser, Brent, Hung, Li-Wen, Mamin, H. J., Rugar, Daniel, Shelby, Robert M., Murray, Conal, Rodbell, Kenneth, Sleight, Jeffrey
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12514
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author Dane, Andrew
Balakrishnan, Karthik
Wacaser, Brent
Hung, Li-Wen
Mamin, H. J.
Rugar, Daniel
Shelby, Robert M.
Murray, Conal
Rodbell, Kenneth
Sleight, Jeffrey
author_facet Dane, Andrew
Balakrishnan, Karthik
Wacaser, Brent
Hung, Li-Wen
Mamin, H. J.
Rugar, Daniel
Shelby, Robert M.
Murray, Conal
Rodbell, Kenneth
Sleight, Jeffrey
contents Superconducting qubits have been used in the most advanced demonstrations of quantum information processing, and they can be manufactured at-scale using proven semiconductor techniques. This makes them one of the leading technologies in the race to demonstrate useful quantum computers. Since their initial demonstration, advances in design, fabrication, and materials have extended the timescales over which fragile quantum information can be stored and manipulated on superconducting qubits. Ubiquitous atomic-scale material defects have been identified as a primary cause of qubit energy-loss and decoherence. Here we study transmon qubits that exhibit energy relaxation times exceeding 2.5 ms. Even at these long timescales, our qubit energy loss is dominated by two level systems (TLS). We observe large variations in these energy-loss times that would make it extremely difficult to accurately evaluate and compare qubit fabrication processes and to perform studies that require precise measurements of energy loss. To address this issue, we present a technique for characterizing qubit quality factor. In this method, we apply a slowly varying electric field to TLS near the qubit to stabilize the measured energy relaxation time, enabling us to replace hundreds of hours of measurements with ones that span several minutes.
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spellingShingle Performance Stabilization of High-Coherence Superconducting Qubits
Dane, Andrew
Balakrishnan, Karthik
Wacaser, Brent
Hung, Li-Wen
Mamin, H. J.
Rugar, Daniel
Shelby, Robert M.
Murray, Conal
Rodbell, Kenneth
Sleight, Jeffrey
Quantum Physics
Superconducting qubits have been used in the most advanced demonstrations of quantum information processing, and they can be manufactured at-scale using proven semiconductor techniques. This makes them one of the leading technologies in the race to demonstrate useful quantum computers. Since their initial demonstration, advances in design, fabrication, and materials have extended the timescales over which fragile quantum information can be stored and manipulated on superconducting qubits. Ubiquitous atomic-scale material defects have been identified as a primary cause of qubit energy-loss and decoherence. Here we study transmon qubits that exhibit energy relaxation times exceeding 2.5 ms. Even at these long timescales, our qubit energy loss is dominated by two level systems (TLS). We observe large variations in these energy-loss times that would make it extremely difficult to accurately evaluate and compare qubit fabrication processes and to perform studies that require precise measurements of energy loss. To address this issue, we present a technique for characterizing qubit quality factor. In this method, we apply a slowly varying electric field to TLS near the qubit to stabilize the measured energy relaxation time, enabling us to replace hundreds of hours of measurements with ones that span several minutes.
title Performance Stabilization of High-Coherence Superconducting Qubits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12514