Stabilization and operation of a Kerr-cat qubit

Stabilization and operation of a Kerr-cat qubit

Stabilization and operation of a Kerr-cat qubit

A qubit generated and stabilized in a superconducting microwave resonator by encoding it into Schrödinger cat states produced by Kerr nonlinearity and single-mode squeezing shows intrinsic robustness to phase-flip errors.

Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2587-z