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Life after charge noise: recent results with transmon qubits

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We review the main theoretical and experimental results for the transmon, a superconducting charge qubit derived from the Cooper pair box. The increased ratio of the Josephson to charging energy results in an exponential suppression of the transmon’s sensitivity to 1/f charge noise. This has been observed experimentally and yields homogeneous broadening, negligible pure dephasing, and long coherence times of up to 3 μs. Anharmonicity of the energy spectrum is required for qubit operation, and has been proven to be sufficient in transmon devices. Transmons have been implemented in a wide array of experiments, demonstrating consistent and reproducible results in very good agreement with theory.

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    Jens Koch, M. H. Devoret, S. M. Girvin & R. J. Schoelkopf

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Houck, A.A., Koch, J., Devoret, M.H. et al. Life after charge noise: recent results with transmon qubits. Quantum Inf Process 8, 105–115 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-009-0100-6

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