Current biased gradiometric flux qubit in a circuit-QED architecture

  1. Mun Dae Kim
We propose a scheme for controlling the gradiometric flux qubit (GFQ) by applying an ac bias current in a circuit-QED architecture. The GFQ is insensitive to the magnetic flux fluctuations,
which at the same time makes it challenging to manipulate the qubit states by an external magnetic field. In this study, we demonstrate that an ac bias current applied to the α-junction of the GFQ can control the qubit states. Further, the present scheme is robust against the charge fluctuation as well as the magnetic flux fluctuations, promising a long coherence time for quantum gate operations. We introduce a circuit-QED architecture to perform the single and two-qubit operations with a sufficiently strong coupling strength.

Circulator function in a Josephson junction circuit and braiding of Majorana zero modes

  1. Mun Dae Kim
We propose a scheme for the circulator function in a superconducting circuit consisting of a three-Josephson junction loop and a trijunction. In this study we obtain the exact Lagrangian
of the system by deriving the effective potential from the fundamental boundary conditions. We subsequently show that we can selectively choose the direction of current flowing through the branches connected at the trijunction, which performs a circulator function. Further, we use this circulator function for a non-Abelian braiding of Majorana zero modes (MZMs). In the branches of the system we introduce pairs of MZMs which interact with each other through the phases of trijunction. The circulator function determines the phases of the trijunction and thus the coupling between the MZMs to gives rise to the braiding operation. We modify the system so that MZMs might be coupled to the external ones to perform qubit operations in a scalable design.

Scalable quantum computing model in the circuit-QED lattice with circulator function

  1. Mun Dae Kim,
  2. and Jaewan Kim
We propose a model for a scalable quantum computing in the circuit-quantum electrodynamics(QED) architecture. In the Kagome lattice of qubits three qubits are connected to each other
through a superconducting three-junction flux qubit at the vertices of the lattice. By controlling one of the three Josephson junction energies of the intervening flux qubit we can achieve the circulator function that couples arbitrary pair of two qubits among three. This selective coupling enables the interaction between two nearest neighbor qubits in the Kagome lattice, and further the two-qubit gate operation between any pair of qubits in the whole lattice by performing consecutive nearest neighbor two-qubit gates.

A circuit QED architecture with current-biased flux qubits

  1. Mun Dae Kim
We theoretically study a circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) architecture with current-biased flux qubits. The qubit is coupled to the transmission line resonator by a bias current
originating from the current mode of the resonator. Ultrastrong coupling regime can be obtained by varying the capacitance between the qubit and the resonator. We propose a scalable design for the circuit QED with current-biased flux qubits, where the dc-SQUIDs take the role of switching the qubit-resonator coupling. An exact calculation on two-qubit coupling strength in the scalable design shows the transition from ferromagnetic to antiferromagnetic xy-type interaction.

Readout of superconducting flux qubit state with a Cooper pair box

  1. Mun Dae Kim,
  2. and K. Moon
We study a readout scheme of superconducting flux qubit state with a Cooper pair box as a transmon. The qubit states consist of the superpositions of two degenerate states where the
charge and phase degrees of freedom are entangled. Owing to the robustness of transmon against external fluctuations, our readout scheme enables the quantum non-demolition and single-shot measurement of flux qubit states. The qubit state readout can be performed by using the non-linear Josephson amplifiers after a $pi/2$-rotation driven by an ac-electric field.