Disentangling the sources of ionizing radiation in superconducting qubits

  1. L. Cardani,
  2. I. Colantoni,
  3. A. Cruciani,
  4. F. De Dominicis,
  5. G. D'Imperio,
  6. M. Laubenstein,
  7. A. Mariani,
  8. L. Pagnanini,
  9. S. Pirro,
  10. C. Tomei,
  11. N. Casali,
  12. F. Ferroni,
  13. D. Frolov,
  14. L. Gironi,
  15. A. Grassellino,
  16. M. Junker,
  17. C. Kopas,
  18. E. Lachman,
  19. C.R.H. McRae,
  20. J. Mutus,
  21. M. Nastasi,
  22. D. P. Pappas,
  23. R. Pilipenko,
  24. M. Sisti,
  25. V. Pettinacci,
  26. A. Romanenko,
  27. D. Van Zanten,
  28. M. Vignati,
  29. J. D. Withrow,
  30. and N. Z. Zhelev
Radioactivity was recently discovered as a source of decoherence and correlated errors for the real-world implementation of superconducting quantum processors. In this work, we measure