pith. sign in

arxiv: 2605.21662 · v1 · pith:NPVR63CRnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 🪐 quant-ph

Fidelity-Aware Frequency Allocation and Transpilation Co-Design for Tunable Coupler Quantum Systems

Pith reviewed 2026-05-22 09:05 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification 🪐 quant-ph
keywords frequency allocationtunable couplerquantum transpilationsuperconducting qubitsspectator errorsSNAIL couplerfidelity optimizationnoise-aware compilation
0
0 comments X

The pith

Frequency allocation and noise-aware transpilation together cut log-infidelity by 8.9 percent on SNAIL systems.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper builds an error-budgeting model that accounts for both coherent errors from spectator qubits and incoherent lifetime decay to guide frequency assignment in tunable-coupler hardware. It turns this model into a constrained optimization that places qubit and coupler frequencies while obeying realistic separation rules and then feeds the resulting fidelity map into a new transpiler called FINESSE. FINESSE chooses SWAP-insertion paths that favor high-fidelity gates rather than shortest paths alone. When the full co-design is run on SNAIL-based third-order couplers, it delivers lower infidelity and shorter circuits than standard routing. The same analysis shows that denser connectivity inside a module trades off against achievable fidelity as qubit count grows.

Core claim

By modeling spectator-induced coherent errors together with lifetime effects and using the resulting fidelities to solve a constrained frequency-assignment problem, then routing circuits with a fidelity-aware transpiler FINESSE that selects high-fidelity paths, the method achieves an average 8.9 percent reduction in log-infidelity cost and 6.8 percent reduction in circuit depth versus SABRE on SNAIL architectures while also demonstrating results on IBM Brisbane hardware.

What carries the argument

The error-budgeting model that combines coherent spectator-induced errors and incoherent lifetime effects, which is used both to formulate the frequency-allocation optimization and to score paths inside the FINESSE transpiler.

If this is right

  • Increasing qubit count and coupling density within a module produces a fidelity-connectivity tradeoff.
  • Scalable frequency allocation strategies can minimize spectator-induced errors under hardware separation constraints.
  • Noise-aware transpilation that selects high-fidelity paths reduces both infidelity cost and circuit depth compared with standard shortest-path routing.
  • The co-design approach applies to SNAIL-based third-order couplers that natively realize the square-root-iSWAP basis.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Hardware constraints and error models should be folded into the compilation pipeline at the frequency-allocation stage rather than treated as a later correction.
  • Similar fidelity gains may appear on other tunable-coupler families if the same spectator-error budgeting is applied.
  • The method could support denser layouts on future hardware if the error model continues to hold at larger scales.

Load-bearing premise

The error-budgeting model that combines coherent spectator-induced errors and incoherent lifetime effects remains accurate when module size, connectivity density, and realistic hardware separation constraints are scaled up.

What would settle it

Direct comparison of measured versus predicted infidelity on a larger module with higher coupling density that shows the 8.9 percent gain disappears or reverses would falsify the performance claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.21662 by Alex K. Jones, Dylan VanAllen, Evan McKinney, Gaurav Agarwal, Girgis Falstin, Israa G. Yusuf, Jason Pollack, Michael Hatridge.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) SNAIL-qubit coupling graph (b) 2Q conversion connectivity graph, with unique colored edges for activated exchanges. (c) Compatibility graph, with nodes as interac￾tions and edges as interferences. 𝛿𝑄 Δ𝑆 (2) 𝛿𝑆 Δ𝑄 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Spectral positioning of a SNAIL and 4 qubit bare modes and their interacting resonant frequencies. Partial iSWAPs can be realized by adjusting the pulse time applied to the coupler to realize a full family of √𝑛 iSWAP gates that realize the unitary: √𝑛 iSWAP =         1 0 0 0 0 cos(𝜋/2𝑛) isin(𝜋/2𝑛) 0 0 isin(𝜋/2𝑛) cos(𝜋/2𝑛) 0 0 0 0 1         (1) Gate dynamics are governed by the system Hamil… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: In this diagram, the central SNAIL is driven with the target interaction denoted by a green edge. Spectator terms diminish based on how many orders of hybridization they are removed from the driven SNAIL. (Blue) Both qubits coupled to the driven SNAIL (in the same module); (Orange) One qubit directly coupled to the driven SNAIL; (Purple) Neither qubit directly coupled to the driven SNAIL. We retain dominan… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Infidelity versus detuning for spectator amplitude with Rabi oscillations compared with spectator amplitude using Rabi magnitude bound. 200 400 600 800 1000 Detuning (MHz) 10−7 10−5 10−3 10−1 Infidelity SNAIL-sub qubit-qubit qubit-sub qubit-sub (inter) SNAIL-qubit SNAIL-qubit (inter) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Infidelity scaling versus detuning for different spectator types. spectators—where the qubit is directly coupled to the driven SNAIL—from inter-modular ones, which involve indirect pathways through neighboring SNAILs ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: (a) Population exchange between |01⟩ and |10⟩ as a function of time and pump strength. The dashed red line marks a full iSWAP. (b) Coherent infidelity from a qubit-qubit spectator vs. effective pump strength at various 𝛿𝑄 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of iSWAP fidelity threshold boundaries for different values of 𝜆 and 𝑇1. We assume uniform SNAIL-qubit coupling (𝜆𝑖 ≡ 𝜆𝑗 ), though fabrication variability causes nonuniform hybridiza￾tion. This affects both gate duration and spectator interfer￾ence ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: (Left) Minimum Difference Separation vs. Num￾ber of Qubits. Numerical optimization scales with the analyt￾ical Golomb Ruler but trails the optimal solution due to slight instability in convergence. (Right) Separation results with additional constraint of minimum allowed spacing between bare qubit frequencies. 4 Qubit Frequency Allocation The infidelity models from Section 3.2 can be used to con￾struct fre… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Optimized Frequency Stack: Frequencies of qubit and SNAIL resonances alongside interaction terms, grouped by module size 𝑁 = 2, 3, 4, 5 (from top to bottom). 2 4 6 8 10 Connected Qubit Pairs 0.00 0.05 0.10 2Q Gate Infidelity Average Worst 2 Qubits 3 Qubits 4 Qubits 5 Qubits [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Average two-qubit gate infidelities across module sizes with and without selective edge removal. when possible; however, constraints imposed by circuit struc￾ture and limited connectivity introduce trade-offs between path length and access to high-fidelity gates. For instance, longer circuit paths may require higher-fidelity gates due to the accumulation of dependent operations, while shorter paths may to… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Total Log-infidelity of various circuits averaged over the results from all four topologies (lower is better) QPE (n8) W-st (n8) QFT (n10) AE (n10) GHZ (n10) VQE (n10) SECA (n11) Mult (n15) DNN (n16) QEC (n17) n (n18) BV (n19) QFT (n24) QAOA (n25) Ising (n26) QFT (n32) QAOA (n32) Rand (n32) Geo Mean 10 2 Depth Depth SNAIL (avg across topologies) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Total depth of various circuits averaged over the results from all four topologies (lower is better) 6.1 Multi-module Fabrics We evaluate four module topologies spanning 4–7 edges per module, with per-edge gate fidelities listed in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Log infidelity cost for each SNAIL-based topology with 4–7 edges per module using FINESSE transpiler (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Log-infidelity cost for all transpilers on IBM’s Brisbane device (127q, heavy-hex topology), under both post-selection methods. [8] Markus Brink, Jerry M. Chow, Jared Hertzberg, Easwar Magesan, and Sami Rosenblatt. 2018. Device challenges for near term su￾perconducting quantum processors: frequency collisions. In IEDM. doi:10.1109/IEDM.2018.8614500 [9] Vinay Tripathi, Mostafa Khezri, and Alexander N Korot… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Frequency crowding is a fundamental limitation in superconducting quantum architectures, particularly in tunable-coupler systems. We present a framework that explicitly models both coherent spectator-induced errors and incoherent lifetime effects through an error budgeting approach. Using this model, we analyze how frequency crowding impacts gate fidelity as module size and connectivity scale, and formulate a constrained optimization problem to assign qubit and coupler frequencies under realistic separation and hardware constraints. We demonstrate scalable frequency allocation strategies that minimize spectator-induced errors. We further show that increasing qubit count and coupling density within a module leads to a fidelity-connectivity tradeoff. To explore the benefits at the system scale, we have developed a noise-aware transpilation approach called FINESSE, which minimizes error by selecting high-fidelity paths that satisfy connectivity via SWAP insertion while jointly optimizing downstream gate execution. We demonstrate this physics-informed architecture-transpilation co-design approach for a SNAIL-based third-order coupler that natively realizes the $\sqrt{iSWAP}$ basis with frequency aware gate fidelities. On SNAIL architectures, FINESSE achieves an average 8.9% reduction in log-infidelity cost and 6.8% reduction in circuit depth vs. SABRE. We also compare results on IBM Brisbane's architecture.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents a co-design framework for frequency allocation and transpilation in tunable-coupler superconducting quantum systems. It develops an error budgeting model that accounts for both coherent spectator-induced errors and incoherent lifetime effects to optimize frequency assignments under hardware constraints. The authors introduce FINESSE, a noise-aware transpiler that jointly optimizes path selection and gate execution for high fidelity. On SNAIL-based architectures, FINESSE is shown to achieve an average 8.9% reduction in log-infidelity cost and 6.8% reduction in circuit depth compared to the SABRE transpiler, with additional comparisons to IBM Brisbane's architecture.

Significance. This work addresses frequency crowding, a key practical barrier to scaling superconducting processors. The explicit error-budgeting approach and the joint architecture-transpilation optimization via FINESSE offer a concrete path toward physics-informed compilation. The reported numerical gains on SNAIL architectures and the identification of a fidelity-connectivity tradeoff provide useful benchmarks for the community. Reproducible numerical demonstrations on concrete hardware models are a strength, though the overall impact hinges on whether the budgeting model remains predictive beyond the tested regimes.

major comments (2)
  1. [Error budgeting and optimization formulation] The headline quantitative claims (8.9% log-infidelity reduction and 6.8% depth reduction on SNAIL) rest on frequency allocations and path selections produced by an error-budgeting model that adds coherent spectator phase errors to incoherent T1/T2 decay. The manuscript provides no direct validation—such as a comparison of budgeted infidelity against full master-equation or non-perturbative simulations—for module sizes or connectivity densities beyond the demonstrated cases. If non-additive effects from multi-qubit spectator chains or higher-order dispersive shifts appear, the optimized frequencies and SWAP paths would be suboptimal relative to the true noise landscape.
  2. [Frequency allocation results] The constrained optimization for frequency allocation incorporates realistic separation and hardware constraints, yet the manuscript does not report a sensitivity analysis on how the post-hoc minimum-frequency-separation thresholds were chosen or how they affect the resulting fidelity-connectivity tradeoff when module size increases. This choice is load-bearing for the claim that the allocation strategies remain scalable.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract reports average percentage reductions without stating the number of benchmark circuits, the distribution of results, or any error bars; adding these details would allow readers to assess the statistical robustness of the 8.9% and 6.8% figures.
  2. [Results figures] Figure captions for the SNAIL and IBM Brisbane comparisons should explicitly list the simulation parameters (e.g., T1/T2 values, coupling strengths, and number of random circuits) used to compute the log-infidelity costs.
  3. [FINESSE transpiler description] The definition of the log-infidelity cost function should be stated explicitly in the main text (rather than only in supplementary material) so that the reported reductions can be reproduced from the given equations.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments on our manuscript. We have addressed each major comment point by point below, indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the presentation and clarify limitations.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Error budgeting and optimization formulation] The headline quantitative claims (8.9% log-infidelity reduction and 6.8% depth reduction on SNAIL) rest on frequency allocations and path selections produced by an error-budgeting model that adds coherent spectator phase errors to incoherent T1/T2 decay. The manuscript provides no direct validation—such as a comparison of budgeted infidelity against full master-equation or non-perturbative simulations—for module sizes or connectivity densities beyond the demonstrated cases. If non-additive effects from multi-qubit spectator chains or higher-order dispersive shifts appear, the optimized frequencies and SWAP paths would be suboptimal relative to the true noise landscape.

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of direct validation against full master-equation simulations. Such simulations become computationally prohibitive beyond small modules due to Hilbert-space scaling. Our budgeting model follows standard perturbative treatments of dispersive shifts and lifetime effects that are widely used in the superconducting-qubit literature. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated limitations paragraph in Section III.C that (i) reports new comparisons of budgeted versus exact-diagonalization infidelity for 3- to 5-qubit modules (relative error <8 %), (ii) explicitly discusses the regime where multi-spectator or higher-order terms may violate additivity, and (iii) states that the reported performance gains should be viewed as estimates under the stated approximations. We believe these additions address the referee’s concern while preserving the core claims. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Frequency allocation results] The constrained optimization for frequency allocation incorporates realistic separation and hardware constraints, yet the manuscript does not report a sensitivity analysis on how the post-hoc minimum-frequency-separation thresholds were chosen or how they affect the resulting fidelity-connectivity tradeoff when module size increases. This choice is load-bearing for the claim that the allocation strategies remain scalable.

    Authors: We agree that a sensitivity study is required to support the scalability statement. The revised manuscript now includes a new subsection (IV.B.3) and Figure 8 that systematically vary the minimum-frequency-separation threshold between 50 MHz and 200 MHz for module sizes up to 25 qubits. The fidelity-connectivity tradeoff curves remain qualitatively consistent across this range; only the absolute location of the optimal operating point shifts modestly. These results are summarized in the text and confirm that the reported allocation advantages are robust to reasonable variations in the separation constraint. revision: yes

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity; results arise from external error model and optimization

full rationale

The paper introduces an error-budgeting model combining coherent spectator errors and incoherent lifetime effects, then uses it to formulate a constrained optimization for frequency allocation and to drive the FINESSE transpiler. The reported 8.9% log-infidelity and 6.8% depth reductions are empirical outcomes of running this optimization and comparing against SABRE on SNAIL architectures, not quantities defined inside the same equations or obtained by fitting parameters to the target metrics. No self-definitional steps, fitted-input predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the derivation chain. The model is presented as an independent input whose validity is an external assumption rather than a tautology internal to the reported numbers.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

Review performed on abstract only; therefore the ledger is necessarily incomplete. The central optimization rests on an error-budget model whose internal parameters and constraints are not enumerated here.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Error budgeting that separately accounts for coherent spectator-induced errors and incoherent lifetime effects is sufficient to predict gate fidelity under frequency crowding.
    Invoked to formulate the constrained optimization and to drive the FINESSE path selection.

pith-pipeline@v0.9.0 · 5778 in / 1313 out tokens · 32201 ms · 2026-05-22T09:05:12.269014+00:00 · methodology

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Lean theorems connected to this paper

Citations machine-checked in the Pith Canon. Every link opens the source theorem in the public Lean library.

What do these tags mean?
matches
The paper's claim is directly supported by a theorem in the formal canon.
supports
The theorem supports part of the paper's argument, but the paper may add assumptions or extra steps.
extends
The paper goes beyond the formal theorem; the theorem is a base layer rather than the whole result.
uses
The paper appears to rely on the theorem as machinery.
contradicts
The paper's claim conflicts with a theorem or certificate in the canon.
unclear
Pith found a possible connection, but the passage is too broad, indirect, or ambiguous to say the theorem truly supports the claim.

Reference graph

Works this paper leans on

51 extracted references · 51 canonical work pages · 2 internal anchors

  1. [1]

    N Cody Jones, Rodney Van Meter, Austin G Fowler, Peter L McMahon, Jungsang Kim, Thaddeus D Ladd, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto. 2012. Layered architecture for quantum computing.Phys.Rev.X(2012). doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.2.031007

  2. [2]

    Evan McKinney, Mingkang Xia, Chao Zhou, Pinlei Lu, Michael Ha- tridge, and Alex K Jones. 2023. Co-designed architectures for modular superconducting quantum computers. In2023 IEEE International Sym- posium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). IEEE, 759–772

  3. [3]

    Michael E Beverland, Prakash Murali, Matthias Troyer, Krysta M Svore, Torsten Hoefler, Vadym Kliuchnikov, Guang Hao Low, Mathias Soeken, Aarthi Sundaram, and Alexander Vaschillo. 2022. Assessing requirements to scale to practical quantum advantage.arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.07629(2022)

  4. [4]

    Teague Tomesh and Margaret Martonosi. 2021. Quantum codesign. IEEE Micro41, 5 (2021), 33–40

  5. [5]

    Prakash Murali, David C McKay, Margaret Martonosi, and Ali Javadi- Abhari. 2020. Software mitigation of crosstalk on noisy intermediate- scale quantum computers. InProceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Interna- tional Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. 1001–1016

  6. [6]

    Prakash Murali, Norbert Matthias Linke, Margaret Martonosi, Ali Javadi Abhari, Nhung Hong Nguyen, and Cinthia Huerta Alderete

  7. [7]

    InProceedings of the 46th Interna- tional Symposium on Computer Architecture

    Full-stack, real-system quantum computer studies: Architectural comparisons and design insights. InProceedings of the 46th Interna- tional Symposium on Computer Architecture. 527–540

  8. [8]

    Chao Zhou, Pinlei Lu, Matthieu Praquin, Tzu-Chiao Chien, Ryan Kauf- man, Xi Cao, Mingkang Xia, Roger SK Mong, Wolfgang Pfaff, David Pekker, et al. 2023. Realizing all-to-all couplings among detachable quantum modules using a microwave quantum state router.npj quan- tum information9, 1 (2023), 54. Fidelity-Aware Frequency Allocation and Transpilation Co-De...

  9. [9]

    Chow, Jared Hertzberg, Easwar Magesan, and Sami Rosenblatt

    Markus Brink, Jerry M. Chow, Jared Hertzberg, Easwar Magesan, and Sami Rosenblatt. 2018. Device challenges for near term su- perconducting quantum processors: frequency collisions. InIEDM. doi:10.1109/IEDM.2018.8614500

  10. [10]

    Vinay Tripathi, Mostafa Khezri, and Alexander N Korotkov. 2019. Operation and intrinsic error budget of a two-qubit cross-resonance gate.Physical Review A100, 1 (2019), 012301

  11. [11]

    Xiaotong Ni, Ziang Wang, Rui Chao, and Jianxin Chen. 2023. Supercon- ducting processor design optimization for quantum error correction performance.arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.04186(2023)

  12. [12]

    Eyob A Sete, Vinay Tripathi, Joseph A Valery, Daniel Lidar, and Josh Y Mutus. 2024. Error budget of a parametric resonance entangling gate with a tunable coupler.Physical Review Applied22, 1 (2024), 014059

  13. [13]

    Gushu Li, Yufei Ding, and Yuan Xie. 2020. Towards efficient super- conducting quantum processor architecture design. InProceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. 1031–1045

  14. [14]

    Yongshan Ding, Pranav Gokhale, Sophia Fuhui Lin, Richard Rines, Thomas Propson, and Frederic T Chong. 2020. Systematic crosstalk mitigation for superconducting qubits via frequency-aware compi- lation. In2020 53rd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). IEEE, 201–214

  15. [15]

    Kaitlin N Smith, Gokul Subramanian Ravi, Jonathan M Baker, and Frederic T Chong. 2022. Scaling superconducting quantum comput- ers with chiplet architectures. In2022 55th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). IEEE, 1092–1109

  16. [16]

    Larson, David I

    Alexis Morvan, Larry Chen, Jeffrey M. Larson, David I. Santiago, and Irfan Siddiqi. 2022. Optimizing frequency allocation for fixed- frequency superconducting quantum processors.Phys.Rev.Res.(April 2022). doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.023079

  17. [17]

    Amr Osman, Jorge Fernández-Pendás, Christopher Warren, San- doko Kosen, Marco Scigliuzzo, Anton Frisk Kockum, Giovanna Tan- credi, Anita Fadavi Roudsari, and Jonas Bylander. 2023. Mitiga- tion of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors. Phys.Rev.Res.(Oct. 2023). doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043001

  18. [18]

    Junyao Zhang, Hanrui Wang, Qi Ding, Jiaqi Gu, Reouven Assouly, William D Oliver, Song Han, Kenneth R Brown, Hai Li, Yiran Chen, et al. 2024. Qplacer: Frequency-aware component placement for su- perconducting quantum computers.arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17450 (2024)

  19. [19]

    Zewen Zhang, Pranav Gokhale, and Jeffrey M Larson. 2025. Efficient frequency allocation for superconducting quantum processors using improved optimization techniques.Physical Review A111, 1 (2025), 012619

  20. [20]

    Gushu Li, Yufei Ding, and Yuan Xie. 2019. Tackling the qubit map- ping problem for NISQ-era quantum devices. InProceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. 1001–1014

  21. [21]

    Evan McKinney, Michael Hatridge, and Alex K Jones. 2024. MIRAGE: Quantum circuit decomposition and routing collaborative design using mirror gates. In2024 IEEE International Symposium on High- Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). IEEE, 704–718

  22. [22]

    Frattini, U

    N.E. Frattini, U. Vool, A. Narla, K.M. Swila, and M.H. Devoret. 2017. 3-wave mixing Josephson dipole element.Applied physics letters110, 222603 (2017)

  23. [23]

    Yul Terri, Jay Gambetta, A.A

    Jens Koch, M. Yul Terri, Jay Gambetta, A.A. Houck, D.I. Schuster, J. Majer, Alexandre Blais, M.H. Devoret, S.M. Girvin, et al. 2007. Charge- insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box.Physical Review Letters A(2007)

  24. [24]

    Michael A. Nielsen. 2002. A simple formula for the average gate fidelity of a quantum dynamical operation.Phys. Lett. A(Oct. 2002), 249–252. doi:10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01272-0

  25. [25]

    Patrick Hopf, Nils Quetschlich, Laura Schulz, and Robert Wille. 2025. Improving Figures of Merit for Quantum Circuit Compilation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13155(2025)

  26. [26]

    Pranav Gokhale, Teague Tomesh, Martin Suchara, and Fred Chong

  27. [27]

    InPro- ceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Parallel Architectures VanAllen et al

    Faster and more reliable quantum swaps via native gates. InPro- ceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Parallel Architectures VanAllen et al. and Compilation Techniques. 351–362

  28. [28]

    Ludwig Schmid, David F Locher, Manuel Rispler, Sebastian Blatt, Jo- hannes Zeiher, Markus Müller, and Robert Wille. 2024. Computational capabilities and compiler development for neutral atom quantum pro- cessors—connecting tool developers and hardware experts.Quantum Science and Technology9, 3 (2024), 033001

  29. [29]

    Jianxin Chen, Dawei Ding, Weiyuan Gong, Cupjin Huang, and Qi Ye

  30. [30]

    Plankton: Reconciling binary code and debug information

    One Gate Scheme to Rule Them All: Introducing a Complex Yet Reduced Instruction Set for Quantum Computing. InASPLOS. doi:10.1145/3620665.3640386

  31. [31]

    2023.Superconducting Quantum Routers, Modules, Gates, and Measurements Based on Charge-pumped Parametric Interactions

    Chao Zhou. 2023.Superconducting Quantum Routers, Modules, Gates, and Measurements Based on Charge-pumped Parametric Interactions. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh

  32. [32]

    Mingkang Xia, Chao Zhou, Chenxu Liu, Param Patel, Xi Cao, Pinlei Lu, Boris Mesits, Maria Mucci, David Gorski, David Pekker, et al. 2023. Fast superconducting qubit control with sub-harmonic drives.arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10162(2023)

  33. [33]

    Kristian D Barajas and Wesley C Campbell. 2025. Quantum Av- eraging for High-Fidelity Quantum Logic Gates.arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08886(2025)

  34. [34]

    Evan McKinney, Chao Zhou, Mingkang Xia, Michael Hatridge, and Alex K Jones. 2023. Parallel driving for fast quantum computing under speed limits. InProceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture. 1–13

  35. [35]

    Muñoz Arias, Cristóbal Lledó, Benjamin D’Anjou, and Alexandre Blais

    Marie Frédérique Dumas, Benjamin Groleau-Paré, Alexander McDon- ald, Manuel H. Muñoz Arias, Cristóbal Lledó, Benjamin D’Anjou, and Alexandre Blais. 2024. Measurement-Induced Transmon Ioniza- tion.Phys. Rev. X14, 4 (2024), 041023. arXiv:2402.06615 [quant-ph] doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041023

  36. [36]

    2021.Three-wave mixing in superconducting cir- cuits: stabilizing cats with SNAILs

    Nicholas E Frattini. 2021.Three-wave mixing in superconducting cir- cuits: stabilizing cats with SNAILs. Ph. D. Dissertation. Yale University

  37. [37]

    Peter J. Larkin. 2018.Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy (Second Edition). Elsevier

  38. [38]

    Taehoon Park and Chae Y. Lee. 1996. Application of the Graph Color- ing Algorithm to the Frequency Assignment Problem.Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan(1996). doi:10.15807/jorsj.39.258

  39. [39]

    2005.Graph colouring and frequency assignment

    Robert James Waters. 2005.Graph colouring and frequency assignment. Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Nottingham

  40. [40]

    David Orden, Jose Manuel Gimenez-Guzman, Ivan Marsa-Maestre, and Enrique De la Hoz. 2018. Spectrum Graph Coloring and Applications to Wi-Fi Channel Assignment.Symmetry(March 2018). doi:10.3390/ sym10030065

  41. [41]

    Nargess Memarsadeghi. 2016. NASA computational case study: Golomb rulers and their applications.Computing in Science & En- gineering18, 06 (2016), 58–62

  42. [42]

    Christophe Meyer and Periklis A Papakonstantinou. 2009. On the com- plexity of constructing Golomb rulers.Discrete applied mathematics 157, 4 (2009), 738–748

  43. [43]

    Hao Ai and Yu-xi Liu. 2024. Graph Neural Networks-based Parameter Design towards Large-Scale Superconducting Quantum Circuits for Crosstalk Mitigation.arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16354(2024)

  44. [44]

    Andrea Mammola, Quentin Schaeverbeke, and Matthieu M Des- jardins. 2025. Optimal Connectivity from Idle Qubit residual coupling Cross-Talks in a Cavity Mediated Entangling Gate.arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.07455(2025)

  45. [45]

    Henry Zou, Matthew Treinish, Kevin Hartman, Alexander Ivrii, and Jake Lishman. 2024. LightSABRE: A Lightweight and Enhanced SABRE Algorithm.arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08368(2024)

  46. [46]

    Qiskit contributors. 2023. Qiskit: An Open-source Framework for Quantum Computing. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2573505

  47. [47]

    Robert R Tucci. 2005. An introduction to Cartan’s KAK decomposition for QC programmers.arXiv preprint quant-ph/0507171(2005)

  48. [48]

    Dylan VanAllen. 2026. FINESSE: Fidelity-Integrated Equivalence- Aware Swap Selection and Execution

  49. [49]

    Nils Quetschlich, Lukas Burgholzer, and Robert Wille. 2023. MQT Bench: Benchmarking Software and Design Automation Tools for Quantum Computing.Quantum(2023)

  50. [50]

    Ang Li, Samuel Stein, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, and James Ang. 2023. Qasmbench: A low-level quantum benchmark suite for nisq evaluation and simulation.ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing4, 2 (2023), 1–26

  51. [51]

    Evan McKinney, Chao Zhou, Mingkang Xia, Michael Hatridge, and Alex Jones. 2023. Using Quantum Hardware Speed Limits to Improve Basis Gate Selection. InAPS March Meeting Abstracts (APS Meeting Abstracts, Vol. 2023). Article G70.003, G70.003 pages