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ArticleNature communications2025

Synchronous detection of cosmic rays and correlated errors in superconducting qubit arrays.

Patrick M Harrington, Mingyu Li, Max Hays, Wouter Van De Pontseele, Daniel Mayer, H Douglas Pinckney, Felipe Contipelli, Michael Gingras, Bethany M Niedzielski, Hannah Stickler and 6 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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16 authors.

Patrick M HarringtonResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. patrickmharrington@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1230-5448
Mingyu LiDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Max HaysResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6241-1628
Wouter Van De PontseeleDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-3133
Daniel MayerDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
H Douglas PinckneyResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-6070
Felipe ContipelliMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.
Michael GingrasMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-5358-2181
Bethany M NiedzielskiMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-8064
Hannah SticklerMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-6251-0618
Jonilyn L YoderMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.
Mollie E SchwartzMIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4406-8974
Jeffrey A GroverResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6835-8517
Kyle SerniakResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3469-9166
William D OliverResearch Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. william.oliver@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8041-0824
Joseph A FormaggioDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. josephf@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3757-9883

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantum information processing at scale will require sufficiently stable and long-lived qubits, likely enabled by error-correction codes. Several recent superconducting-qubit experiments, however, reported observing intermittent spatiotemporally correlated errors that would be problematic for conventional codes, with ionizing radiation being a likely cause. Here, we directly measured the cosmic-ray contribution to spatiotemporally correlated qubit errors. We accomplished this by synchronously monitoring cosmic-ray detectors and qubit energy-relaxation dynamics of 10 transmon qubits distributed across a 5 × 5 × 0.35  mm

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