Hybrid quantum bit based on topological insulators

Science Daily  April 14, 2022 Topological qubits are considered to be particularly robust and largely immune to external sources of decoherence and appear to enable fast switching times comparable to those achieved by the conventional superconducting qubits used in current quantum processors. However, it is not yet clear whether we will ever succeed in producing topological qubits as a suitable material basis is still lacking to experimentally generate the special quasiparticles required for this without any doubt. An international team of researchers (Germany, UK, Denmark, the Netherlands) implemented superconducting transmon qubits with (Bi0.06Sb0.94)2Te3 topological insulator. According to the team microwave […]

Hybrid qubits solve key hurdle to quantum computing

Phys.org  December 28, 2018 Single-spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots hold promise for universal quantum computation. However, initialization and readout of a qubit is orders of magnitude slower than control. An international team of researchers (Japan, France, Germany, Switzerland) combined slow initializing single-spin qubit called a Loss-DiVincenzo qubit, which has very high control fidelity and a singlet-triplet qubit, which has quick initialization and read out, but quickly becomes decoherent. For the study they combined the two types with a type of quantum gate known as a controlled phase gate, which allowed spin states to be entangled between the qubits in […]