Fluxonium

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A type of superconducting artificial atom used as a qubit in quantum computing.

A superconducting quantum circuit consisting of a small Josephson junction shunted by a superinductor. This topology protects the circuit against charge noise while maintaining strong anharmonicity, making it highly coherent. Researchers use it to build long-lived qubits for experimental quantum processors.

Heard on the job

We measured a coherence time of over a millisecond on the new fluxonium array.