Andrew Patterson

Realization of a Carbon-Nanotube-Based Superconducting Qubit

  1. Matthias Mergenthaler,
  2. Ani Nersisyan,
  3. Andrew Patterson,
  4. Martina Esposito,
  5. Andreas Baumgartner,
  6. Christian Schönenberger,
  7. G. Andrew D. Briggs,
  8. Edward A. Laird,
  9. and Peter J. Leek
Hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) involves the study of coherent quantum physics in solid state systems via their interactions with superconducting microwave circuits. Here
we present an implementation of a hybrid superconducting qubit that employs a carbon nanotube as a Josephson junction. We realize the junction by contacting a carbon nanotube with a superconducting Pd/Al bi-layer, and implement voltage tunability of the qubit frequency using a local electrostatic gate. We demonstrate strong dispersive coupling to a coplanar waveguide resonator via observation of a resonator frequency shift dependent on applied gate voltage. We extract qubit parameters from spectroscopy using dispersive readout and find qubit relaxation and coherence times in the range of 10−200 ns.
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