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Amritesh Sharma

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arXiv2026

Tunable anharmonicity in Sn-InAs nanowire transmons beyond the short junction limit

The anharmonicity of a transmon qubit, defined as the difference in energy level spacing, is a key design parameter. In transmons built from hybrid superconductor-semiconductor Josephson elements, the anharmonicity is tunable with gate voltages that control both the Josephson energy and the weak link transparency. In Sn-InAs nanowire transmons, we use two-tone microwave spectroscopy to extract anharmonicity ranging in absolute value from the transmon charging energy $E_c$ to values smaller than $E_c/10$. This behavior contrasts with the predictions of the multi-channel short-junction model, which sets a lower limit on anharmonicity at $E_c/4$. Coherent operation of the qubit is still possible at the point of the lowest anharmonicity. These findings demonstrate the potential of quantum circuits that benefit from widely electrically tunable anharmonicity.

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arXiv2025

Transmon qubit using Sn as a junction superconductor

Superconductor qubits typically use aluminum-aluminum oxide tunnel junctions to provide the non-linear inductance. Junctions with semiconductor barriers make it possible to vary the superconductor material and explore beyond aluminum. We use InAs semiconductor nanowires coated with thin superconducting shells of beta-Sn to realize transmon qubits. By tuning the Josephson energy with a gate voltage, we adjust the qubit frequency over a range of 3 GHz. The longest energy relaxation time, T1 = 27 microseconds, is obtained at the lowest qubit frequencies, while the longest echo dephasing time, T2 = 1.8 microseconds, is achieved at higher frequencies. We assess the possible factors limiting coherence times in these devices and discuss steps to enhance performance through improvements in materials fabrication and circuit design.

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arXiv2025

Sn-InAs nanowire shadow-defined Josephson junctions

Interest in hybrid electronic devices for quantum science is driving the research into superconductor-semiconductor materials combinations. Here we study InAs nanowires coated with shells of $\beta$-Sn. The wires grow via the vapor-liquid-solid mechanism out from (001) InAs substrates along two orientations, forming a criss-crossing landscape. This allows us to define nanowire-shadow junctions during the low temperature Sn shell deposition by carefully choosing the deposition angle. We find that the Sn shells are uniform in thickness and the grains have a preferential in-plane epitaxial relationship with InAs. The interface between Sn and InAs is abrupt and we do not observe interdiffusion. In our nanowire devices, Sn induces a superconducting gap of order 600 $\mu$eV, switching currents reaching values up to 500 nA, and critical magnetic fields along the nanowire of up to 1.3 T. These characteristics can be leveraged in the design of superconducting transmon qubits, parametric microwave amplifiers as well as for the investigation of triplet and topological superconductivity.

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arXiv2021

Transmission based tomography for spin qubits

We consider a system of static spin qubits embedded in a one-dimensional spin coherent channel and develop a scheme to readout the state of one and two qubits separately. We use unpolarized flying qubits for this purpose that scatter off from the static qubits due to the Heisenberg exchange interaction. Analysing the transmission coefficient as a function of density matrix elements along with additional unitary gates we reconstruct the state of static qubits.

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arXiv2020

Quantum state preparation of spin eigenstates including the Dicke states with generalized all-coupled interaction in a spintronic quantum computing architecture

There has been an extensive development in the use of multi-partite entanglement as a resource for various quantum information processing tasks. In this paper we focus on preparing arbitrary spin eigenstates whose subset contain important entangled resources like Dicke states as well as some other sub-radiant states that are difficult to prepare. Leveraging on the symmetry of these states we consider uniform pairwise exchange coupling between every pair of qubits. Starting from a product state of a given spin eigenstate with a single qubit state, another spin eigenstate can be prepared using simple time evolutions. This expansion paves a deterministic approach to prepare arbitrary Dicke states in linear steps. We discuss an improvement in this cost building up on a previous work for W states deterministic preparation in logarithmic circuit depth. The modified algorithm requires several iterations of pumping spin angular momentum into the system and is akin to the amplitude amplification in Grover search. As a use case to demonstrate the proposed scheme, we choose a system of non-interacting static spin qubits connected to a ferromagnetic reservoir. The flying qubits emerging from the reservoir locally interact with static qubits successively, mediating an in-direct exchange interaction between all the pairs.

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arXiv2019

Generation of n-qubit W states using Spin Torque

We examine here a scheme to generate a W state of an n-qubit system with all-to-all pairwise exchange interaction between n qubits. This relies on sharing of superposed excitations of a smaller number of $q$ qubits among others. We present a bound on the maximal jumps from q to n and formalize a scheme to generate $W_n$ state in $\mathcal{O}(\log_4 n)$ stages. We demonstrate this scheme in the context of spin torque based quantum computing architecture that are characterized by repeated interactions between static and flying qubits.

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