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Main Authors: Crowe, Sean, Evans, Stefan, Smolyaninov, Alexei
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18016
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author Crowe, Sean
Evans, Stefan
Smolyaninov, Alexei
author_facet Crowe, Sean
Evans, Stefan
Smolyaninov, Alexei
contents We apply polymer quantization, a quantization technique sometimes used in high energy physics, to several superconducting circuits including: transmons, transmission line resonators, and LC circuits. In the case of transmon qubits and transmission line resonators, experimental predictions are very close to what is found with canonical quantization, though in this approach constant charge offsets can be interpreted as quantization ambiguities. In the case of LC circuits, polymer quantization predicts nonlinearities which are not present in the canonical approach. Based on this analysis we design and analyze a qubit which uses a meander inductor instead of a Josephson junction. Implications for qubit performance and fabrication are discussed. Given a choice for an effective phase operator, relevant parameters such as anharmonicity, frequency, and dispersive shifts are calculated for this meander inductor based qubit.
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spellingShingle Analysis of polymerized superconducting circuits
Crowe, Sean
Evans, Stefan
Smolyaninov, Alexei
Quantum Physics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We apply polymer quantization, a quantization technique sometimes used in high energy physics, to several superconducting circuits including: transmons, transmission line resonators, and LC circuits. In the case of transmon qubits and transmission line resonators, experimental predictions are very close to what is found with canonical quantization, though in this approach constant charge offsets can be interpreted as quantization ambiguities. In the case of LC circuits, polymer quantization predicts nonlinearities which are not present in the canonical approach. Based on this analysis we design and analyze a qubit which uses a meander inductor instead of a Josephson junction. Implications for qubit performance and fabrication are discussed. Given a choice for an effective phase operator, relevant parameters such as anharmonicity, frequency, and dispersive shifts are calculated for this meander inductor based qubit.
title Analysis of polymerized superconducting circuits
topic Quantum Physics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18016