Extracting Electromagnetic Bare Mode Couplings in Large Superconducting Quantum Processors
Abstract
High-fidelity control of superconducting quantum processors requires accurate characterization of electromagnetic coupling strengths among the device's constituent elements. Accurately extracting these couplings across large-scale architectures, presently featuring hundreds of qubits, poses a challenging multi-scale modeling problem. This requires resolving scales from the nanometer-scale geometry of Josephson junctions and their leads to the centimeter-scale size of the enclosing metallic packages. We present four numerical coupling extraction methods based on the avoided level crossing, the energy participation ratio, the induced electromotive force, and the impedance matrix. These methods are tailored to work with commercially available 3D electromagnetic solvers. We benchmark these techniques on a 10×10 array of transmon qubits, extracting their couplings to standing package modes. Our results show that these methods yield consistent coupling strengths with a maximum relative difference of less than 5%.
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BibTeX
@misc{molavi2026extracting,
title = {{Extracting Electromagnetic Bare Mode Couplings in Large Superconducting Quantum Processors}},
author = {Reza Molavi and Ebrahim Forati and Yaxing Zhang and Andrey R. Klots and Juan Atalaya and Brandon W. Langley and Dogan A. Timucin and Moein Nazari and Ghazi Khan and Zlatko K. Minev and Alexander N. Korotkov and Michel H. Devoret},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.22442},
eprint = {2609.22442},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22442},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Extracting Electromagnetic Bare Mode Couplings in Large Superconducting Quantum Processors
AU - Reza Molavi
AU - Ebrahim Forati
AU - Yaxing Zhang
AU - Andrey R. Klots
AU - Juan Atalaya
AU - Brandon W. Langley
AU - Dogan A. Timucin
AU - Moein Nazari
AU - Ghazi Khan
AU - Zlatko K. Minev
AU - Alexander N. Korotkov
AU - Michel H. Devoret
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/18
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.22442
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22442
AB - High-fidelity control of superconducting quantum processors requires accurate characterization of electromagnetic coupling strengths among the device's constituent elements. Accurately extracting these couplings across large-scale architectures, presently featuring hundreds of qubits, poses a challenging multi-scale modeling problem. This requires resolving scales from the nanometer-scale geometry of Josephson junctions and their leads to the centimeter-scale size of the enclosing metallic packages. We present four numerical coupling extraction methods based on the avoided level crossing, the energy participation ratio, the induced electromotive force, and the impedance matrix. These methods are tailored to work with commercially available 3D electromagnetic solvers. We benchmark these techniques on a 10×10 array of transmon qubits, extracting their couplings to standing package modes. Our results show that these methods yield consistent coupling strengths with a maximum relative difference of less than 5%.
ER -