Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments
Financiación H2020 / H2020 Funds
Resumen: We propose and demonstrate two practical mitigation methods to attenuate the cosmic muon flux, compatible with experiments involving superconducting qubits: shallow underground sites and device orientation. Using a specifically-built cosmic muon detector, we identify underground sites, widely present in urban environments, where significant attenuation of cosmic muon flux, up to a factor 35 for 100 m depths, can be attained. Furthermore, we employ two germanium wafers in an above-ground laboratory, each equipped with a particle sensor, to show how the orientation of a chip with respect to the sky affects the amount and type of energy deposited on the substrate by ionizing radiation. We observe that the horizontal detector sees more counts at lower energy, while the vertical one is impacted by more particles at higher energy. The methods here described proposed ways to directly understand and reduce the effects of cosmic rays on qubits by attenuating the source of this type of decoherence, complementing existing on-chip mitigation strategies. We expect that both on-chip and off-chip methods combined will become ubiquitous in quantum technologies based on superconducting qubit circuits.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/adaedc
Año: 2025
Publicado en: New Journal of Physics 27, 2 (2025), 023014 [15 pp.]
ISSN: 1367-2630

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/899561/EU/ANNEALING-BASED VARIATIONAL QUANTUM PROCESSORS/AVaQus
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PCI2019-111838-2
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2021-122140NB-C31
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/RYC2019-028482-I
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Física Atóm.Molec.y Nucl. (Dpto. Física Teórica)

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