Symmetrical qubits with reduced far-field radiation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10957737-B2
Application number	US-202016735851-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 7, 2020
Priority date	Aug 3, 2018
Publication date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021

Abstract

Symmetrical qubits with reduced far-field radiation are provided. In one example, a qubit device includes a first group of superconducting capacitor pads positioned about a defined location of the qubit device, wherein the first group of superconducting capacitor pads comprise two or more superconducting capacitor pads having a first polarity, and a second group of superconducting capacitor pads positioned about the defined location of the qubit device in an alternating arrangement with the first group of superconducting capacitor pads, wherein the second group of superconducting capacitor pads comprise two or more superconducting capacitor pads having a second polarity that is opposite the first polarity.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A qubit device comprising:
a first set of connectors that electrically couples first superconducting capacitor pads positioned about a defined location of the qubit device;
a second set of connectors that electrically couples second superconducting capacitor pads positioned about the defined location of the qubit device, wherein the first superconducting capacitor pads have a first polarity, the second superconducting capacitor pads have a second polarity that is opposite the first polarity, and the first superconducting capacitor pads and the second superconducting capacitor pads are positioned in an alternating arrangement about the defined location of the qubit device; and
a Josephson junction formed between the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors.

2. The qubit device of claim 1 , wherein the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors are rotationally symmetric about the defined location.

3. The qubit device of claim 1 , further comprising an oxide barrier between a portion of the first set of connectors and a portion of the second set of connectors.

4. The qubit device of claim 1 , further comprising:
respective coupling pads positioned adjacent to respective ones of the first superconducting capacitor pads or the second superconducting capacitor pads.

5. The qubit device of claim 4 , wherein the respective coupling pads are associated with at least one of a bus resonator or a readout resonator.

6. The qubit device of claim 1 , wherein the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors comprise aluminum.

7. The qubit device of claim 1 , wherein the Josephson junction comprises aluminum oxide.

8. The qubit device of claim 1 , further comprising capacitor gaps formed between respective adjacent ones of the first superconducting capacitor pads and the second superconducting capacitor pads.

9. A method comprising:
forming first superconducting capacitor pads positioned about a defined location of a superconducting metal layer;
forming second superconducting capacitor pads positioned about the defined location of the superconducting metal layer, wherein the first superconducting capacitor pads have a first polarity, the second superconducting capacitor pads have a second polarity that is opposite the first polarity, and the first superconducting capacitor pads and the second superconducting capacitor pads are positioned in an alternating arrangement about the defined location; and
forming a Josephson junction on the first superconducting capacitor pads and the second superconducting capacitor pads.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the forming the Josephson junction comprises:
forming a first set of connectors that electrically couples the first superconducting capacitor pads; and
forming a second set of connectors that electrically couples the second superconducting capacitor pads positioned about the defined location of the qubit device.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the forming the Josephson junction further comprises forming the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors rotationally symmetric about the defined location.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the forming the Josephson junction further comprises forming an oxide barrier between a portion of the first set of connectors and a portion of the second set of connectors.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising forming respective coupling pads positioned adjacent to respective ones of the first superconducting capacitor pads or the second superconducting capacitor pads.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the respective coupling pads are associated with at least one of a bus resonator or a readout resonator.

15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, further comprising forming capacitor gaps between respective adjacent ones of the first superconducting capacitor pads and the second superconducting capacitor pads.

16. A superconducting quantum logic circuit comprising:
an array of qubits linked by a quantum bus;
wherein a qubit of the array of qubits comprises:
a first set of connectors that electrically couples first superconducting capacitor pads positioned about a defined location of the qubit;
a second set of connectors that electrically couples second superconducting capacitor pads positioned about the defined location of the qubit, wherein the first superconducting capacitor pads have a first polarity, the second superconducting capacitor pads have a second polarity that is opposite the first polarity, and the first superconducting capacitor pads and the second superconducting capacitor pads are positioned in an alternating arrangement about the defined location; and
a Josephson junction formed between the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors.

17. The superconducting quantum logic circuit of claim 16 , further comprising an oxide barrier between a portion of the first set of connectors and a portion of the second set of connectors.

18. The superconducting quantum logic circuit of claim 16 , further comprising:
respective coupling pads positioned adjacent to respective ones of the first superconducting capacitor pads or the second superconducting capacitor pads.

19. The superconducting quantum logic circuit of claim 18 , wherein the respective coupling pads are associated with at least one of a bus resonator or a readout resonator.

20. The superconducting quantum logic circuit of claim 16 , wherein the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors comprise aluminum.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Adiga Vivekananda P
• Sandberg Martin O
• Chow Jerry M
• Paik Hanhee

Classifications

• G06N3/044

  Recurrent networks, e.g. Hopfield networks · CPC title

• G06N7/01

  Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks · CPC title

• G06N10/40

  Physical realisations or architectures of quantum processors or components for manipulating qubits, e.g. qubit coupling or qubit control · CPC title

• G06N3/08

  Learning methods · CPC title

• G06N20/10

  using kernel methods, e.g. support vector machines [SVM] · CPC title