Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor Two-Dimensional Systems for Superconducting Quantum Circuits

  1. Joseph O'Connell Yuan,
  2. Kaushini S. Wickramasinghe,
  3. William M. Strickland,
  4. Matthieu C. Dartiailh,
  5. Kasra Sardashti,
  6. Mehdi Hatefipour,
  7. and Javad Shabani
Qubits on solid state devices could potentially provide the rapid control necessary for developing scalable quantum information processors. Materials innovation and design breakthroughs
have increased functionality and coherence of qubits substantially over the past two decades. Here we show by improving interface between InAs as a semiconductor and Al as a superconductor, one can reliably fabricate voltage-controlled Josephson junction field effect transistor (JJ-FET) that can be used as tunable qubits, resonators, and coupler switches. We find that band gap engineering is crucial in realizing a two-dimensional electron gas near the surface. In addition, we show how the coupling between the semiconductor layer and the superconducting contacts can affect qubit properties. We present the anharmonicity and coupling strengths from one and two-photon absorption in a quantum two level system fabricated with a JJ-FET.

Voltage-tunable superconducting resonators: a platform for random access quantum memory

  1. Kasra Sardashti,
  2. Matthieu C. Dartiailh,
  3. Joseph Yuan,
  4. Sean Hart,
  5. Patryk Gumann,
  6. and Javad Shabani
In quantum computing architectures, one important factor is the trade-off between the need to couple qubits to each other and to an external drive and the need to isolate them well
enough in order to protect the information for an extended period of time. In the case of superconducting circuits, one approach is to utilize fixed frequency qubits coupled to coplanar waveguide resonators such that the system can be kept in a configuration that is relatively insensitive to noise. Here, we propose a scalable voltage-tunable quantum memory (QuMem) design concept compatible with superconducting qubit platforms. Our design builds on the recent progress in fabrication of Josephson field effect transistors (JJ-FETs) which use InAs quantum wells. The JJ-FET is incorporated into a tunable coupler between a transmission line and a high-quality resonator in order to control the overall inductance of the coupler. A full isolation of the high-quality resonator can be achieved by turning off the JJ-FET. This could allow for long coherence times and protection of the quantum information inside the storage cavity. The proposed design would facilitate the implementation of random access memory for storage of quantum information in between computational gate operations.