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MEMSDuino: An Arduino-Based MEMS Switch Controller

May 1, 2025
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Lafe Spietz, Adam Sirois, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Peter Hopkins, Samuel Benz, Steve Waltman
Radio frequency cryogenic switches are a critical enabling technology for quantum information science, both for calibration and high throughput testing of samples. Traditionally solenoid-based switches have been used, but transition is being made to MEMS

Modular Autonomous Virtualization System for Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Quantum Dot Arrays

April 30, 2025
Author(s)
Anantha Rao, Donovan Buterakos, Barnaby van Straaten, Valentin John, Cecile Yu, Stefan Oosterhout, Lucas Stehouwer, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Francesco Borsoi, Justyna Zwolak
Arrays of gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots are among the leading candidates for building scalable quantum processors. High-fidelity initialization, control, and readout of spin qubit registers require exquisite and targeted control over key

Enabling phase stabilization of quantum networks via displacement-enhanced photon counting

April 23, 2025
Author(s)
Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Daehyun Ahn, Ivan Burenkov, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, N. Fajar R. Annafianto
Optical phase stabilization, tracking, and locking in long fiber links are pivotal for the functionality of many communication protocols and distributed sensors. However, conventional phase stabilization methods use strong optical probe signals that may

Multi-mode Gaussian State Analysis with one Bounded Photon Counter

March 25, 2025
Author(s)
Arik Avagyan, Emanuel Knill, Scott Glancy
Gaussian states are ubiquitous in quantum optics and information processing, and it is essential to have effective tools for their characterization. One such tool is a photon-number-resolving detector, and the simplest configuration involves counting the

Mechanical Sensors for Planck-scale Dark Matter Searches via Long-range Forces

February 14, 2025
Author(s)
Jacob Taylor, Juehang Qin, Dorian Amaral, sunil bhave, Erqian Cai, Daniel Carney, Raphael Lang, Shengchao Li, Claire Marvinney, Alberto Marino, Jared Newton, Christopher Tunnell
Dark matter candidates with masses around the Planck-scale are theoretically well-motivated and have been the subject of numerous studies; it has also been suggested that it might be possible to search for dark matter solely via gravitational interactions

Entanglement Routing in Quantum Networks: A Comprehensive Survey

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
Amar Abane, Michael Cubeddu, Van Sy Mai, Abdella Battou
Entanglement routing in near-term quantum networks consists of choosing the optimal sequence of local entanglements to combine through swapping operations to establish end-to-end entanglement between two distant nodes on a quantum network. Similar to

Resilience-Runtime Tradeoff Relations for Quantum Algorithms

February 3, 2025
Author(s)
Luis Pedro Garcia-Pintos, Tom O'Leary, Tanmoy Biswas, Jacob Bringewatt, Lukasz Cincio, Lucas Brady, Yi-Kai Liu
A leading approach to algorithm design aims to minimize the number of operations in an algorithm's compilation. One intuitively expects that reducing the number of operations may decrease the chance of errors. This paradigm is particularly prevalent in

Autonomous bootstrapping of quantum dot devices

January 28, 2025
Author(s)
Anton Zubchenko, Danielle Middlebrooks, Torbjoern Rasmussen, Lara Lausen, Ferdinand Kuemmeth, Anasua Chatterjee, Justyna Zwolak
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a promising platform for multiple different qubit implementations, all of which are voltage controlled by programmable gate electrodes. However, as the QD arrays grow in size and complexity, tuning procedures that can

Automation of Quantum Dot Measurement Analysis via Explainable Machine Learning

January 13, 2025
Author(s)
Daniel Schug, Tyler Kovach, Michael Wolfe, Jared Benson, Sanghyeok Park, J. P. Dodson, Joelle Corrigan, Mark Eriksson, Justyna Zwolak
The rapid development of quantum dot (QD) devices for quantum computing has necessitated more efficient and automated methods for device characterization and tuning. Many of the measurements acquired during the tuning process come in the form of images

Polynomial-Time Classical Simulation of Noisy IQP Circuits after Constant Depth

January 12, 2025
Author(s)
Joel Rajakumar, James Watson, Yi-Kai Liu
Sampling from the output distributions of quantum computations comprising only commuting gates, known as instantaneous quantum polynomial (IQP) computations, is believed to be intractable for classical computers, and hence this task has become a leading

Fault-tolerant quantum memory using low-depth random circuit codes

January 10, 2025
Author(s)
Jon Nelson, Gregory Bentsen, Steven Flammia, Michael Gullans
Low-depth random circuit codes possess many desirable properties for quantum error correction but have so far only been analyzed in the code capacity setting where it is assumed that encoding gates and syndrome measurements are noiseless. In this work, we

Nagaoka ferromagnetism in 3 * 3 arrays and beyond

December 26, 2024
Author(s)
Yan Li, Keyi Liu, Garnett Bryant
Nagaoka ferromagnetism (NF) is a long-predicted example of itinerant ferromagnetism (IF) in the Hubbard model that has been studied theoretically for many years. The condition for NF, an infinite onsite Coulomb repulsion and a single hole in a half-filled

Disseminable single-photon source for quantum radiometry

December 24, 2024
Author(s)
Hristina Georgieva, Thomas Gerrits, Lijun Ma, Riley Dawkins, Marco Lopez, Oliver Slattery, Sven Rodt, Stephan Reitzenstein, Alan Migdall, Stefan Kueck
We present a disseminable single-photon source based on an InGaAs quantum dot in a micro-mesa. This source achieves a maximum photon flux of 2.8 million photons/s at a wavelength of 929.7 nm, with a multi-photon suppression of g(2)(0) = 0.22. The

Computed models of natural radiation backgrounds in qubits and superconducting detectors

December 9, 2024
Author(s)
Joseph Fowler, Ian Fogarty Florang, Nathan Nakamura, Daniel Swetz, Paul Szypryt, Joel Ullom
Naturally occurring radiation backgrounds cause correlated decoherence events in superconducting qubits. These backgrounds include gamma rays produced by terrestrial radioisotopes and cosmic rays. We use the particle-transport code Geant4 and the PARMA

Noiseless Loss Suppression for Entanglement Distribution

December 2, 2024
Author(s)
Cory Nunn, Daniel Jones, Todd Pittman, Brian Kirby
Recent work by Mičuda et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 109, 180503 (2012)] suggests that pairing noiseless amplification with noiseless attenuation can conditionally suppress loss terms in the direct transmission of quantum states. Here we extend this work to

Enhanced zero-phonon line emission from an ensemble of W centers in circular and bowtie Bragg grating cavities

November 19, 2024
Author(s)
Vijin Kizhake Veetil, Junyeob Song, Pradeep Namboodiri, Nikki Ebadollahi, Ashish Chanana, Aaron Katzenmeyer, Christian Pederson, Joshua Pomeroy, Jeff Chiles, Jeff Shainline, Kartik Srinivasan, Marcelo Davanco, Matthew Pelton
Color centers in silicon have recently gained considerable attention as a single-photon source [1,2] and as a spin qubit-photon interface [3] for quantum information applications. However, one of the major bottlenecks is their low overall brightness due to

Spectroscopic Measurements and Models of Energy Deposition in the Substrate of Quantum Circuits by Natural Ionizing Radiation

November 12, 2024
Author(s)
Joseph Fowler, Paul Szypryt, Raymond Bunker, Ellen Edwards, Ian Fogarty Florang, JIANSONG GAO, Shannon Hoogerheide, Ben Loer, Hans Mumm, Nathan Nakamura, John Orrell, Elizabeth M. Scott, Jason Stevens, Daniel Swetz, Brent VanDevender, Michael Vissers, Joel Ullom
Naturally occurring background radiation is a potential source of correlated decoherence events in superconducting qubits that will challenge error-correction schemes. In order to characterize the radiation environment in an unshielded laboratory
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