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QICK papers

This list of academic papers that used the QICK was last updated January 26, 2026.

QICK in the news

• Fermilab articles

QICK system

• Ding, C. et al. Experimental advances with the QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit) for superconducting quantum hardware. (2023).
• Stefanazzi, L. et al. The QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit): Readout and control for qubits and detectors. (2021).

Superconducting circuits - scaling

• Silva, A. et al. Manarat: A Scalable QICK-Based Control System for Superconducting Quantum Processors Supporting Synchronized Control of 10 Flux-Tunable Qubits. (2025).

Superconducting circuits - quantum error correction hardware

• Cochran, J. et al. Experimental signatures of a sigma-z sigma-x beam-splitter interaction between a Kerr-cat and transmon qubit. (2025).
• Li, Z. et al. A Cascaded Random Access Quantum Memory. (2025).

Superconducting circuits – gates/couplers

• Xia, M. et al. Exceeding the Parametric Drive Strength Threshold in Nonlinear Circuits. (2025).
• Huang, J. et al. Fast Sideband Control of a Weakly Coupled Multimode Bosonic Memory. (2025).
• Miao, C. et al. Implementation of a quantum addressable router using superconducting qubits. (2025).
• Cao, X. et al. Parametrically controlled chiral interface for superconducting quantum devices. (2024).
• Ye, Y. et al. Near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling in superconducting circuits. (2024).
• Zhang, H. et al. Tunable inductive coupler for high fidelity gates between fluxonium qubits. (2023).
• Johnson, H. et al. Exploration of Optimizing FPGA-based Qubit Controller for Experiments on Superconducting Quantum Computing Hardware. (2023).

Superconducting circuits – quantum simulation

• Martinez, J.G.C. et al. Flat-band localization and interaction-induced delocalization of photons. (2023).

Superconducting circuits - coherence

• Wang, Q. et al. Spectroscopy and Coherent Control of Two-Level System Defect Ensembles Using a Broadband 3D Waveguide. (2025).
• Huang, S. et al. Towards a hybrid 3D transmon qubit with topological insulator-based Josephson junctions. (2025).
• Wang, Q. et al. Evidence of Memory Effects in the Dynamics of Two-Level System Defect Ensembles Using Broadband, Cryogenic Transient Dielectric Spectroscopy. (2025).
• Bland, M. et al. 2D transmons with lifetimes and coherence times exceeding 1 millisecond. (2025).
• Kumar, S. et al. Protomon: A Multimode Qubit in the Fluxonium Molecule. (2024).
• Chang, R.D. et al. Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits with Noble Metal Encapsulation. (2024).
• McFadden, A. et al. Fabrication and characterization of low-loss Al/Si/Al parallel plate capacitors for superconducting quantum information applications. (2024).
• Tuokkola, M. et al. Methods to achieve near-millisecond energy relaxation and dephasing times for a superconducting transmon qubit. (2024).
• Oriani, A.E. et al. Niobium coaxial cavities with internal quality factors exceeding 1.5 billion for circuit quantum electrodynamics. (2024).
• Anferov, A. et al. Superconducting Qubits Above 20 GHz Operating over 200 mK. (2024).
• Anferov, A. et al. Improved Coherence in Optically-Defined Niobium Trilayer Junction Qubits. (2023).

Superconducting circuits - radiative loss

• De Dominicis, F. et al. Evaluating radiation impact on transmon qubits in above and underground facilities. (2024).
• Bratrud, G. et al. First Measurement of Correlated Charge Noise in Superconducting Qubits at an Underground Facility. (2024).
• Odeh, M. et al. Non-Markovian dynamics of a superconducting qubit in a phononic bandgap. (2023).

Superconducting circuits – readout

• Gibson, J. et al. A scanning resonator for probing quantum coherent devices. (2025).
• Smitham, B. et al. Sub-resonant wideband superconducting Purcell filters. (2025).
• Guglielmo, G. et al. End-to-end workflow for machine learning-based qubit readout with QICK and hls4ml. (2025).
• Johnson, H. et al. Demonstrating the Potential of Adaptive LMS Filtering on FPGA-Based Qubit Control Platforms for Improved Qubit Readout in 2D and 3D Quantum Processing Units. (2024).
• Yen, A. et al. Interferometric Purcell suppression of spontaneous emission in a superconducting qubit. (2024).
• Yen, A. et al. Directional emission of a readout resonator for qubit measurement. (2024).
• Bryon, J. et al. Experimental verification of the treatment of time-dependent flux in circuit quantization. (2022).

Superconducting circuits - parametric amplifiers

• Hao, Z. et al. Wireless Josephson parametric amplifier above 20 GHz. (2025).
• Wang, J. et al. High-Efficiency, Low-Loss Floquet-Mode Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier. (2025).
• Bosellli, M. et al. Observation and mitigation of microwave echoes from dielectric defects in Josephson traveling wave amplifiers. (2025).

Superconducting circuits - transduction

• Warner, H.K. et al. Coherent control of a superconducting qubit using light. (2023).

Superconducting circuits - quantum acoustic systems

• Undershute, C. et al. Decoherence of surface phonons in a quantum acoustic system. (2024).

Neutral atoms

• Zhang, B. et al. Leveraging erasure errors in logical qubits with metastable 171Yb atoms. (2025).

Spin defects

• Sadi, M. et al. Landau Zener Interaction Enhanced Quantum Sensing in Spin Defects of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. (2026).
• Sadi, M. et al. Spin-State Selective Excitation in Spin Defects of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. (2025).
• Ivory, M. et al. QCaMP: A 4-Week Summer Camp Introducing High School Students to Quantum Information Science and Technology. (2025).
• Feder, J. et al. A fluorescent-protein spin qubit. (2024).
• Riendeau, E.G. et al. Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit -- Defect Arbitrary Waveform Generator (QICK-DAWG): A Quantum Sensing Control Framework for Quantum Defects. (2023).

Quantum dots

• Shinozaki, M. et al. Perfect impedance matching unlocks sensitive radio-frequency reflectometry in 2D material quantum dots. (2025).
• Koong, Z. et al. Coherent Control of Quantum-Dot Spins with Cyclic Optical Transitions. (2025).
• Shinozaki, M. et al. RFSoC-based radio-frequency reflectometry in gate-defined bilayer graphene quantum devices. (2025).

MKIDs

• Stifter, K. et al. Cryogenic optical beam steering for superconducting device calibration. (2024).

Dark matter detection

• Hoshino, G. et al. First Axion-Like Particle Results from a Broadband Search for Wave-Like Dark Matter in the 44 to 52 ueV Range with a Coaxial Dish Antenna. (2025).
• Zhao, F. et al. A Flux-Tunable cavity for Dark matter detection. (2025).
• Knirck, S. et al. First Results from a Broadband Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter in the 44 to 52 ueV range with a coaxial dish antenna. (2023).

Single-photon detection

• Linne, K. et al. PhotonIDs: ML-Powered Photon Identification System for Dark Count Elimination. (2025).
• Linne, K. et al. SQuaD: Smart Quantum Detection for Photon Recognition and Dark Count Elimination. (2025).
• Xie, S. et al. Entangled Photon Pair Source Demonstrator using the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit System. (2023).

Open source control with the Qibo/QICK stack (Qibolab/Qibosoq)

• Pasquale, A. et al. Qibocal: an open-source framework for calibration of self-hosted quantum devices. (2024).
• Moretti, R. et al. Transmon qubit modeling and characterization for Dark Matter search. (2024).
• Pedicillo, E. et al. An open-source framework for quantum hardware control. (2024).
• D'Elia, A. et al. Characterization of a Transmon Qubit in a 3D Cavity for Quantum Machine Learning and Photon Counting. (2024).
• Carobene, R. et al. Qibosoq: an open-source framework for quantum circuit RFSoC programming. (2023).
• Efthymiou, S. et al. Qibolab: an open-source hybrid quantum operating system. (2023).
• Cruz-Martinez, J.M. et al. Multi-variable integration with a variational quantum circuit. (2023).