Superconducting Materials: hBN, Tantalum and Aluminum Films

Presentations

• Analytical extraction of dielectric loss and reactive circuit parameters using coplanar waveguide resonators

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Xuanjing Chu

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Xuanjing Chu

    • Columbia University

  • Jesse Balgley

  • Jinho Park

    • Columbia University

  • Leonardo Ranzani

    • Raytheon BBN Technologies

  • Martin Gustafsson

    • Raytheon BBN Technologies

  • James Hone

    • Columbia University

  • Kin Chung Fong

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• CVD-grown 2D films for superconducting quantum devices – Part I

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Justin Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Justin Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Sameia Zaman

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Joel Wang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Xudong Zheng

  • Kyung Yeol Ma

  • Junyoung An

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Junghyun Kim

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Hung-Yu Tsao

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Chia-Chin Tsai

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Aranya Goswami

    • Nokia Bell Labs

  • William Banner

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gabriel Cutter

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Terry Orlando

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kyle Serniak

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jing Kong

  • William Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• CVD-grown 2D films for superconducting quantum devices – Part II

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Sameia Zaman

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Sameia Zaman

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Justin Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Joel Wang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Xudong Zheng

  • Kyung Yeol Ma

  • Junyoung An

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Junghyun Kim

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Hung-Yu Tsao

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Chia-Chin Tsai

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Aranya Goswami

    • Nokia Bell Labs

  • William Banner

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gabriel Cutter

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Terry Orlando

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jeffrey Grover

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kyle Serniak

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jing Kong

  • William Oliver

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Transmon Qubit Chip on Single-Crystal Tantalum (110) film

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: [1] A. P. M. Place et al., New material platform for superconducting transmon qubits with coherence times exceeding 0.3 milliseconds, Nat. Comm. 12, 1779 (2021).
  [2] C. Wang et al., Towards practical quantum computers: transmon qubit with a lifetime approaching 0.5 milliseconds, npj Quantum Information 8, 3 (2022).

  Presenters

  • Ping-Lien Lee

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  Authors

  • Ping-Lien Lee

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Chih-Yao Shih

  • Hsiang-Huan Lee

  • Jaw-Shen Tsai

    • NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (NEC Labs)

  • Sheng-Shiuan Yeh

  • Wen-Hao Chang

    • Academia Sinica

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• Epitaxial Tantalum Films for Superconducting Qubits

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: Manuscript in preparation

  Presenters

  • Chih-Yao Shih

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung

  Authors

  • Chih-Yao Shih

    • Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung

  • Ping-Lien Lee

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Shao-Shiun Liao

  • Rui-Qian Liu

  • Hsin-Chuan Huang

  • Yi-Kai Kao

  • Shao-Chi Hong

  • Bang-Yan Liu

  • Sheng-Shiuan Yeh

  • Wen-Hao Chang

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• Beta tantalum transmons with quality factors exceeding five million

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Atharv Joshi

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Atharv Joshi

    • Princeton University

  • Apoorv Jindal

    • Princeton University

  • Paal Prestegaard

    • Princeton University

  • Faranak Bahrami

    • Princeton University

  • Matthew Bland

    • Princeton University

  • Elizabeth Hedrick

    • Princeton University

  • Tunmay Gerg

  • Guangming Cheng

  • Nan Yao

  • Andrew Houck

    • Princeton University

  • Nathalie de Leon

    • Princeton University

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• Measuring the dielectric loss tangent of aluminum oxide with superconducting resonators

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Elizabeth Hedrick

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Elizabeth Hedrick

    • Princeton University

  • Faranak Bahrami

    • Princeton University

  • Alexander Pakpour-Tabrizi

  • Atharv Joshi

    • Princeton University

  • Ray Chang

    • Princeton University

  • Matthew Bland

    • Princeton University

  • Apoorv Jindal

    • Princeton University

  • Guangming Cheng

  • Nan Yao

  • Robert Cava

    • Princeton University

  • Andrew Houck

    • Princeton University

  • Nathalie de Leon

    • Princeton University

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• Growth and Characterization of Aluminum Thin Films for Superconducting Quantum Devices

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Irshad Ahmad

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  Authors

  • Irshad Ahmad

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • Janka Biznarova

    • ConScience

  • Lert Chayanun

  • Emil Hogedal

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Halldór Jakobsson

  • Lunjie Zeng

  • Eva Olsson

  • Jonas Bylander

    • Chalmers Univ of Tech

  • Giovanna Tancredi

    • Chalmers University of Technology

  • Anita Roudsari

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• Enhancement of superconductivity in cryogenically grown ultra thin Al film

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Teun van Schijndel

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Teun van Schijndel

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Yu Wu

  • Tony McFadden

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Wilson Yanez Parreno

    • University of California Santa Barbara

  • Tawshia Chowdhury

  • Julian Choi

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Ray Simmonds

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • Christopher Palmstrøm

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• Anomalous positive non-linearity in superconducting granular aluminum resonators

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Patrick Winkel

    • Alice & Bob

  Authors

  • Patrick Winkel

    • Alice & Bob

  • Vishakha Gupta

    • Yale University

  • Neel Thakur

    • Yale University

  • Daniil Antonenko

    • Yale University

  • Pavel Kurilovich

    • Yale University

  • Luigi Frunzio

    • Yale University

  • Leonid Glazman

    • Yale University

  • Robert Schoelkopf

    • Yale University

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• Characterizing and Mitigating Vortex Loss in Superconducting Microwave Resonators

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Anna Huynh

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Anna Huynh

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • John Batarekh

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Kiichi Okubo

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • . Manabputra

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Zoe Smith

    • Stanford University

  • Osmond Wen

    • Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • Noah Kurinsky

    • Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

  • B.L.T. Plourde

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• Quantifying Magnetic Flux Impact on the Performance of Superconducting Quantum Devices

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Abdisatarov, Bektur, et al. "Demonstrating magnetic field robustness and reducing temporal T1 noise in transmon qubits through magnetic field engineering." arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02187 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Bektur Abdistarov

    • Fermilab

  Authors

  • Bektur Abdistarov

    • Fermilab

  • Daniel Bafia

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  • Tanay Roy

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  • Grigory Eremeev

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  • Hani Elsayed-Ali

    • Old Dominion University

  • Alexander Romanenko

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  • Anna Grassellino

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

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