Connectivity-induced surface-loss penalty in superconducting qubit-coupler lattices

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10743v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:53:06 GMT
• Title: Connectivity-induced surface-loss penalty in superconducting qubit-coupler lattices
• Abstract summary: We show that higher connectivity can lead to larger surface loss when a qubit is embedded in a flip-chip qubit-coupler lattice.<n>We attribute this change to the combined effects of added edge fields from coupling claws, field redistribution over the larger connected metal network, and hybridization with coupler modes.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in design and fabrication have increased the energy-relaxation times of isolated superconducting transmon qubits to the hundreds-of-microseconds regime, with reported values exceeding 500 $μ$s. However, the same progress has not automatically translated to multiqubit processors, where qubits are embedded in connected qubit-coupler lattices and often exhibit much shorter lifetimes than isolated qubits. To identify possible sources of this discrepancy, here we use finite-element simulation to investigate how surface participation ratios and the resulting surface dielectric loss change when a qubit is embedded in a flip-chip qubit-coupler lattice. Controlled comparisons show that higher connectivity can indeed lead to larger surface loss: in the simulated lattice, connecting a qubit to two and four couplers increases the surface loss by factors of 1.3 and 1.8, respectively. We attribute this change to the combined effects of added edge fields from coupling claws, field redistribution over the larger connected metal network, and hybridization with coupler modes. We further examine how this connectivity-induced surface-loss penalty depends on the geometric design parameters of both the qubit electrodes and the coupling claws, and derive guidelines for designing low-loss multiqubit processors.

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