Efficient modeling of superconducting quantum circuits with tensor networks

  1. Agustin Di Paolo,
  2. Thomas E. Baker,
  3. Alexandre Foley,
  4. David Sénéchal,
  5. and Alexandre Blais
We introduce an efficient tensor network toolbox to compute the low-energy excitations of large-scale superconducting quantum circuits up to a desired accuracy. We benchmark this algorithm on the fluxonium qubit, a superconducting quantum circuit based on a Josephson junction array with over a hundred junctions. As an example of the possibilities offered by this numerical tool, we compute the pure-dephasing coherence time of the fluxonium qubit due to charge noise and coherent quantum phase slips, taking into account the array degrees of freedom corresponding to a Hilbert space as large as 15180. Our algorithm is applicable to the wide variety of circuit-QED systems and may be a useful tool for scaling up superconducting-qubit technologies.

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