Observation of coherent flux-charge interaction in a gate-tunable fluxonium

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07798v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:00:03 GMT
• Title: Observation of coherent flux-charge interaction in a gate-tunable fluxonium
• Abstract summary: Interactions that mix conjugate variables, such as the flux through a circuit element and the charge across it, lie outside the reach of superconducting circuits.<n>In this work, we demonstrate a flux-charge coupling by harnessing a voltage-tunable Josephson junction.<n>We realize a flux-charge coupling that scales linearly with driving amplitude while keeping the transition energy first-order-insensitive to gate voltage.
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• Abstract: Interactions that mix conjugate variables, such as the flux through a circuit element and the charge across it, lie outside the reach of the elementary couplings of superconducting circuits. Capacitors connect charge to charge, and inductors connect flux to flux, while no two-terminal element couples flux to charge directly. A native flux-charge coupling would thus serve as a circuit primitive in its own right, opening direct routes to non-reciprocity, protected modes, and unconventional readout. In this work, we demonstrate a flux-charge coupling by harnessing a voltage-tunable Josephson junction with parametrically modulated critical current, which mediates the interaction between a classical charge variable and a quantum flux operator. Relying on parity-selection rules in a hybrid superconducting-semiconductor fluxonium, we isolate the flux-charge coupling from other parasitic capacitive contributions and perform cross-quadrature-activated coherent control of states. Critically, we realize a flux-charge coupling that scales linearly with driving amplitude while keeping the transition energy first-order-insensitive to gate voltage. Such unconventional interaction broadens the toolbox of superconducting circuits with a critical missing component that enables the coherent coupling of conjugate variables.

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