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Further Reading: Chapter 26 — Superconducting Qubits: Transmons, Flux Qubits, and the Hardware Inside IBM and Google Quantum Computers

  1. Koch, J., et al. "Charge-insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box." Physical Review A, 76(4), 042319 (2007). — The original transmon paper.
  2. Blais, A., et al. "Circuit quantum electrodynamics." Reviews of Modern Physics, 93(2), 025005 (2021). — Comprehensive review of circuit QED.
  3. Krantz, P., et al. "A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits." Applied Physics Reviews, 6(2), 021318 (2019). — Practical design guide.
  4. Arute, F., et al. "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor." Nature, 574, 505–510 (2019). — Google's Sycamore demonstration.
  5. Acharya, R., et al. "Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold." Nature, 638, 920–926 (2025). — Google Willow: exponential error suppression.
  6. McKay, D. C., et al. "Qiskit backend specifications for IBM Quantum devices." — IBM's hardware documentation.
  7. Kjaergaard, M., et al. "Superconducting qubits: Current state of play." Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 11, 369–395 (2020). — Broad review.
  8. Gambetta, J. M., et al. "Building logical qubits in a superconducting quantum processor." Nature, 560, 74–79 (2018). — IBM's early surface code experiments.
  9. Reed, M. D., et al. "Realization of three-qubit quantum error correction with superconducting circuits." Nature, 482, 382–385 (2012). — First experimental QEC with superconducting qubits.
  10. Devoret, M. H., & Schoelkopf, R. J. "Superconducting circuits for quantum information: An outlook." Science, 339(6124), 1169–1174 (2013). — Perspective on the field.