Nature Communications (May 2021)
Reducing the impact of radioactivity on quantum circuits in a deep-underground facility
- L. Cardani,
- F. Valenti,
- N. Casali,
- G. Catelani,
- T. Charpentier,
- M. Clemenza,
- I. Colantoni,
- A. Cruciani,
- G. D’Imperio,
- L. Gironi,
- L. Grünhaupt,
- D. Gusenkova,
- F. Henriques,
- M. Lagoin,
- M. Martinez,
- G. Pettinari,
- C. Rusconi,
- O. Sander,
- C. Tomei,
- A. V. Ustinov,
- M. Weber,
- W. Wernsdorfer,
- M. Vignati,
- S. Pirro,
- I. M. Pop
Affiliations
- L. Cardani
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- F. Valenti
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- N. Casali
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- G. Catelani
- JARA Institute for Quantum Information, Forschungszentrum Jülich
- T. Charpentier
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- M. Clemenza
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca
- I. Colantoni
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- A. Cruciani
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- G. D’Imperio
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- L. Gironi
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano - Bicocca
- L. Grünhaupt
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- D. Gusenkova
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- F. Henriques
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- M. Lagoin
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- M. Martinez
- Fundación ARAID and Centro de Astropartículas y Física de Altas Energías, Universidad de Zaragoza
- G. Pettinari
- Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, National Research Council
- C. Rusconi
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
- O. Sander
- IPE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- C. Tomei
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- A. V. Ustinov
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- M. Weber
- IPE, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- W. Wernsdorfer
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- M. Vignati
- INFN Sezione di Roma
- S. Pirro
- INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
- I. M. Pop
- PHI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23032-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 6
Abstract
Background radiation has been identified as a key factor limiting the coherence times of superconducting circuits. Here, the authors measure the impact of environmental and cosmic radiation on a superconducting resonator with varying degrees of shielding, including an underground facility.