Superconducting Qubits: Radiation and Quasiparticles

Presentations

• Measuring and modeling the impact of radiation on superconducting qubits protected through gap engineering

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Doug Pinckney

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Doug Pinckney

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Tom McJunkin

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Alan Hunt

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Patrick Harrington

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Hannah Binney

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Max Hays

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yenuel Jones-Alberty

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Kate Azar

  • Felipe Contipelli

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Renée DePencier Piñero

  • Jeffrey Gertler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Michael Gingras

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Cyrus Hirjibehedin

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mingyu Li

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Bethany Niedzielski

  • Mallika Randeria

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Hannah Stickler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jiatong Yang

  • Kevin Schultz

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Kyle Serniak

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mollie Schwartz

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Joseph Formaggio

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • William Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Proximity effects in gap-engineered superconducting qubits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Giampiero Marchegiani

    • Technology Innovation Institute

  Authors

  • Giampiero Marchegiani

    • Technology Innovation Institute

  • Gianluigi Catelani

    • Forschungszentrum Juelich & Technology Innovation Institute

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• Correlated Error Bursts in a Gap-Engineered Superconducting Qubit Array

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18228

  Presenters

  • Vladislav Kurilovich

    • Google LLC

  Authors

  • Vladislav Kurilovich

    • Google LLC

  • Gabrielle Roberts

    • Google LLC

  • Leigh Martin

  • Matt McEwen

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Alec Eickbusch

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Lara Faoro

  • Lev Ioffe

    • Google LLC

  • Juan Atalaya

    • Google LLC

  • John Mark Kreikebaum

  • Andreas Bengtsson

    • Google LLC

  • Paul Klimov

    • Google LLC

  • Matthew Neeley

  • Wojciech Mruczkiewicz

  • Kevin Miao

    • Google LLC

  • Igor Aleiner

  • Julian Kelly

    • Google

  • Yu Chen

    • Google LLC

  • Alexander Opremcak

    • Google LLC

  • Alexander Bilmes

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• Imperfect suppression of quasiparticle-induced dissipation in fluxonium qubits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Kate Azar

    • MIT

  Authors

  • Kate Azar

    • MIT

  • Max Hays

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Renée DePencier Piñero

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jeffrey Gertler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Felipe Contipelli

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Michael Gingras

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Bethany Niedzielski

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mallika Randeria

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Hannah Stickler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Kunal L. Tiwari

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jeffrey Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Mollie Schwartz

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • William Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kyle Serniak

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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• A Physics-based, AI-accelerated Codesign Approach for the Optimization of Superconducting Quantum Circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Paul Baity

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  Authors

  • Paul Baity

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  • Nicholas Jeon

  • Anuj Nayak

  • Huan-Hsin Tseng

  • Kristofer Reyes

  • Nathan Urban

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  • Byung-Jun Yoon

  • Lav Varshney

  • Peter Love

    • Tufts University

  • Adolfy Hoisie

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• Understanding quasiparticle dynamics in a superconducting qubit through phonon burst-induced correlated errors

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Emanuela Celi

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Emanuela Celi

    • Northwestern University

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• Excess quasiparticles and their dynamics in the presence of subgap states

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Gianluigi Catelani

    • Forschungszentrum Juelich & Technology Innovation Institute

  Authors

  • Paul Fischer

  • Gianluigi Catelani

    • Forschungszentrum Juelich & Technology Innovation Institute

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• Drive-induced excitation of subgap quasiparticles in superconducting circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Anshu Anshu

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Anshu Anshu

    • University of Southern California

  • Sadman Ahmed Shanto

    • University of Southern California

  • Daria Kowsari

    • University of Southern California

  • Vivek Maurya

    • University of Southern California

  • Leonid Glazman

    • Yale University

  • Eli Levenson-Falk

    • University of Southern California

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• Real-time detection of correlated quasiparticle tunneling events in a multi-qubit superconducting device

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Simon Sundelin

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  Authors

  • Simon Sundelin

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • Linus Andersson

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Hampus Brunander

  • Vyom Kulkarni

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Simone Gasparinetti

    • Chalmers University of Technology

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• Nonuniform quasiparticle densities within fluxonium qubit

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Maksim Litskevich

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Maksim Litskevich

    • Syracuse University

  • Kesavan Manivannan

    • Syracuse University

  • Benjamin Byrd

  • Ivan Pechenezhskiy

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• Spatiotemporally Correlated Error Bursts in Fluxonium Qubits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Renée DePencier Piñero

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  Authors

  • Renée DePencier Piñero

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jeffrey Gertler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Doug Pinckney

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Hannah Binney

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Felipe Contipelli

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Kate Azar

    • MIT

  • Michael Gingras

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Max Hays

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Knecht

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Bethany Niedzielski

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Mallika Randeria

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Hannah Stickler

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Jeffrey Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Mollie Schwartz

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Joseph Formaggio

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • William Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kyle Serniak

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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•  Correlated Coherence Loss from Controlled Quasiparticles Injection in Superconducting Circuits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Neda Forouzani

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Neda Forouzani

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Mayra Amezcua

    • Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  • Abhiram Nallamalli

  • Gregory Quiroz

    • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

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