The award was provided by the Army Research Office, a directorate of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory. The research will cover a four year period at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Rutgers University, and the University of Texas at Austin. The superconductor based fluxonium qubit is a newer approach than the superconductor based transmon qubit which combines features of flux and charge qubit circuits. Part of the research will look at how this qubit type along with multimode cavities can be optimized to achieve much higher coherence times and performance than the current transmons. The other part of this research will investigate how multiple multimode cavities connected by entangled fluxonium qubits can create a modular design that could potentially be scaled up rapidly to provide a large number of high quality qubits. Additional information about this award can be seen in a news release located here.
March 2, 2023
