Development of Integrated Single Flux Quantum - Superconducting Qubit Circuits

Significant theoretical and experimental progress has been made in recent years towards a scalable superconducting quantum circuit architecture. Here we present a first attempt to integrate classical control elements from the single flux quantum (SFQ) digital logic family with a superconducting transom qubit on a single chip. The SFQ driving circuit is fabricated in a six-layer high-$J_c$ Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb junction process while the transmon qubit is subsequently formed using submicron Al-AlOx-Al junctions grown by double-angle evaporation. We investigate sources of decoherence associated with the more complex fabrication process and describe first attempts to perform coherent qubit manipulations using resonant trains of SFQ pulses.