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Post-Quantum Cryptography, and the Quantum Future of Cybersecurity

April 9, 2024
Author(s)
Yi-Kai Liu, Dustin Moody
We review the current status of efforts to develop and deploy post-quantum cryptography on the Internet. Then we suggest specific ways in which quantum technologies might be used to enhance cybersecurity in the near future and beyond. We focus on two goals

Clifford-Deformed Surface Codes

March 19, 2024
Author(s)
Arpit Dua, Aleksander Kubica, Liang Jiang, Steven Flammia, Michael Gullans
Kitaev's toric/surface code and its numerous variants provide promising approaches to practi- cal quantum error correction (QEC). As recently discovered, a careful choice of the code variant and lattice layout can dramatically reduce logical error rate for

Precision Bounds on Continuous-Variable State Tomography Using Classical Shadows

March 18, 2024
Author(s)
Srilekha Gandhari, Victor Albert, Thomas Gerrits, Jacob Taylor, Michael Gullans
Shadow tomography is a framework for constructing succinct descriptions of quantum states, called classical shadows, with powerful methods to bound the estimators used. Classical shadows are well-studied in the discrete-variable case, which consists of

Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays

December 6, 2023
Author(s)
Dolev Bluvstein, Simon Evered, Alexandra Geim, Sophie Li, Hengyun Zhou, Tom Manovitz, Sepehr Ebadi, Madelyn Cain, Marcin Kalinowski, Dominik Hangleiter, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Nishad Maskara, Iris Cong, Xun Gao, Pedro Rodriguez, Thomas Karolyshyn, Giulia Semeghini, Michael Gullans, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, Mikahil Lukin
Suppressing errors is the central challenge for useful quantum computing and quantum error correction is believed to be the key to large-scale quantum processing. Here we report the realization of a programmable quantum processor based on encoded logical

Direct-Laser-Written Polymer Nanowire Waveguides for Broadband Single Photon Collection from Epitaxial Quantum Dots into a Gaussian-like Mode

November 16, 2023
Author(s)
Edgar Perez, Cori Haws, Marcelo Davanco, Jindong Song, Luca Sapienza, Kartik Srinivasan
Single epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are a leading technology for quantum light generation, particularly when they are embedded in photonic geometries that enhance their emission into a targeted and confined mode. However, coupling this mode into a

Clifford operations and homological codes for rotors and oscillators

November 14, 2023
Author(s)
Yijia Xu, Yixu Wang, Victor Albert
We develop quantum information processing primitives for the planar rotor, the state space of a particle on a circle. By interpreting rotor wavefunctions as periodically identified wavefunctions of a harmonic oscillator, we determine the group of bosonic

Tuning Arrays with Rays: Physics-Informed Tuning of Quantum Dot Charge States

September 28, 2023
Author(s)
Joshua Ziegler, Florian Luthi, Mick Ramsey, Felix Borjans, Guoji Zheng, Justyna Zwolak
Quantum computers based on gate-defined quantum dots (QDs) are expected to scale. However, as the number of qubits increases, the burden of manually calibrating these systems becomes unreasonable and autonomous tuning must be used. There has been a range

Comparison of the detection efficiency calibration of a single-photon avalanche detector between NIST and PTB

September 12, 2023
Author(s)
Hristina Georgieva, Thomas Gerrits, Helmuth Hofer, Anouar Rahmouni, Oliver T. Slattery, Marco Lopez, Joshua Bienfang, Alan Migdall, Stefan Kueck
The detection efficiency of a commercial single-photon avalanche detector (SPAD) has been independently determined at two national metrology institutes, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - USA and the Physikalisch-Technische

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

September 7, 2023
Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery
The intention of this dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and sources with the goal to promote better understanding and communication of those metrics across the single-photon

Quantum Lego Expansion Pack: Enumerators from Tensor Networks

August 9, 2023
Author(s)
ChunJun Cao, Michael Gullans, Brad Lackey, Zitao Wang
We provide the first tensor network method for computing quantum weight enumerator polynomials in the most general form. As a corollary, if a quantum code has a known tensor network construction of its encoding map, our method produces an algorithm that

Crystalline Quantum Circuits

July 31, 2023
Author(s)
Grace Sommers, David Huse, Michael Gullans
Random quantum circuits continue to inspire a wide range of applications in quantum information science, while remaining analytically tractable through probabilistic methods. Motivated by the need for deterministic circuits with similar applications, we

Compressed gate characterization for quantum devices with time-correlated noise

July 22, 2023
Author(s)
Michael Gullans, Miguel Caranti, Adam Mills, Jason Petta
As quantum devices make steady progress towards intermediate scale and fault-tolerant quantum computing, it is essential to develop rigorous and efficient measurement protocols that account for known sources of noise in each architecture. Most existing

Multi-mode Gaussian State Analysis with Total Photon Counting

July 11, 2023
Author(s)
Arik Avagyan, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill
The continuing improvement in the qualities of photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors opens new possibilities for measuring quantum states of light. In this work we consider the question of what properties of an arbitrary multi-mode Gaussian state are

Single Flux Quantum-Based Digital Control of Superconducting Qubits in a Multi-Chip Module

June 24, 2023
Author(s)
Chuanhong Liu, Robert McDermott, Britton Plourde, Andrew Ballard, Jonathan DuBois, Pete Hopkins, David Olaya, John Biesecker, Samuel P. Benz, Dan Schmidt, Joel Ullom
The single flux quantum (SFQ) digital superconducting logic family has been proposed as a practical approach for controlling next-generation superconducting qubit arrays with more favorable scaling properties compared to conventional microwave-based

Studies of spatial uniformity and jitter in SiC UV SPADs

June 15, 2023
Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Edwin J. Heilweil, Anand Sampath, Gregory Garrett, Jonathan Shuster, Jeremy Smith, Michael Derenge, Daniel Habersat, Reza Gandhi, Sergei Dolinsky, Enrico Bellotti, michael wrabeck
Ultraviolet single-photon avalanche detectors (UV-SPAD) that are low cost, size, weight, and power as well as resilient to shock, high temperatures and stray magnetic fields have a number of applications. SiC is attractive for UV SPADs as it is inherently

Qubit-oscillator concatenated codes: decoding formalism & code comparison

June 14, 2023
Author(s)
Yijia Xu, Yixu Wang, En-Jui Kuo, Victor Albert
Concatenating bosonic error-correcting codes with qubit codes can substantially boost the error-correcting power of the original qubit codes. It is not clear how to concatenate optimally, given there are several bosonic codes and concatenation schemes to

Systematic Improvements in Transmon Qubit Coherence enabled by Niobium Surface Encapsulation

June 14, 2023
Author(s)
Mustafa BAL, Akshay Murthy, Francesco Crisa, Shaojiang Zhu, Florent Lecocq, Joe Aumentado, Joel Ullom, Pete Hopkins
We present a novel transmon qubit fabrication technique that yields systematic improvements in T1 coherence times. In this study, the devices are fabricated using a novel encapsulation strategy that involves passivating the surface of niobium and thereby
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