Localization and reduction of superconducting quantum coherent circuit losses

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07604v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:50:48 GMT
• Title: Localization and reduction of superconducting quantum coherent circuit losses
• Authors: M. Virginia P. Alto\'e, Archan Banerjee, Cassidy Berk, Ahmed Hajr, Adam Schwartzberg, Chengyu Song, Mohammed Al Ghadeer, Shaul Aloni, Michael J. Elowson, John Mark Kreikebaum, Ed K. Wong, Sinead Griffin, Saleem Rao, Alexander Weber-Bargioni, Andrew M. Minor, David I. Santiago, Stefano Cabrini, Irfan Siddiqi and D. Frank Ogletree
• Abstract summary: Quantum sensing and computation can be realized with superconducting microwave circuits. Qubits are engineered quantum systems of capacitors and inductors with non-linear Josephson junctions.
• Score: 42.18003724534518
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum sensing and computation can be realized with superconducting microwave circuits. Qubits are engineered quantum systems of capacitors and inductors with non-linear Josephson junctions. They operate in the single-excitation quantum regime, photons of $27 \mu$eV at 6.5 GHz. Quantum coherence is fundamentally limited by materials defects, in particular atomic-scale parasitic two-level systems (TLS) in amorphous dielectrics at circuit interfaces.[1] The electric fields driving oscillating charges in quantum circuits resonantly couple to TLS, producing phase noise and dissipation. We use coplanar niobium-on-silicon superconducting resonators to probe decoherence in quantum circuits. By selectively modifying interface dielectrics, we show that most TLS losses come from the silicon surface oxide, and most non-TLS losses are distributed throughout the niobium surface oxide. Through post-fabrication interface modification we reduced TLS losses by 85% and non-TLS losses by 72%, obtaining record single-photon resonator quality factors above 5 million and approaching a regime where non-TLS losses are dominant. [1]M\"uller, C., Cole, J. H. & Lisenfeld, J. Towards understanding two-level-systems in amorphous solids: insights from quantum circuits. Rep. Prog. Phys. 82, 124501 (2019)

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