Curated map of Zoo entries in the Superconducting family.
Entries
| Entry | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
| tunable-coupler | coupling | demonstrated |
| binomial-code | encoding | demonstrated |
| binomial-codes | encoding | demonstrated |
| circuit-qed | infrastructure | demonstrated |
| 0-pi-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| blochnium | qubit | demonstrated |
| bosonic-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| cat-codes | qubit | demonstrated |
| cooper-pair-box-charge-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| cos2phi-qubit | qubit | proposed |
| dual-rail-superconducting-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| flux-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| fluxonium | qubit | demonstrated |
| gkp-codes | qubit | demonstrated |
| gmon | qubit | demonstrated |
| heavy-fluxonium-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| kerr-cat-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| mergemon | qubit | demonstrated |
| phase-qubit | qubit | demonstrated |
| transmon | qubit | demonstrated |
| xmon | qubit | demonstrated |
Composition
- coupling: 1
- encoding: 2
- infrastructure: 1
- qubit: 17
Conceptual anchors
- charge-noise-in-superconducting-qubits and charge-noise-sweet-spot explain the CPB → transmon → protected-superconducting arc.
- josephson-junction-as-nonlinear-element is the common circuit primitive behind nearly every qubit in this family.
- jaynes-cummings-in-circuits, dispersive-readout-mechanism, and resonator-as-quantum-bus are the shared circuit-QED infrastructure layer.
- bosonic-code-hierarchy explains why
cat-codes,gkp-codes, andbinomial-codesare related but not interchangeable.
Hardware-assisted fault-tolerance routes
transmon,xmon,gmon,flux-qubit, and the broader circuit-QED stack are the baseline branch: improve raw gate and measurement fidelity, then hand off to surface-code-logical-qubit or color-code-logical-qubit for architecture-level scaling.bosonic-qubit,cat-codes,kerr-cat-qubit,gkp-codes, andbinomial-codesare the oscillator branch: the hardware itself already starts behaving like a logical primitive, so route first through bosonic-code-hierarchy and then ask whether the win comes from general cavity QEC or from biased-noise protection.0-pi-qubit,cos2phi-qubit,blochnium, andheavy-fluxonium-qubitare the protected-circuit branch, but they are not interchangeable. The real split is whether the design is buying protection from a sweet-spot-plus-matrix-element strategy, from a duality regime, or from a symmetry-engineered multi-axis potential.dual-rail-superconducting-qubitis the erasure-conversion branch: the dominant relaxation event is supposed to leave the codespace in a flagged way, so compare it through erasure-error-vs-pauli-error rather than only through bare gate fidelity.
Protected-circuit routing
heavy-fluxonium-qubitis the nearest-term coherence-first branch. It still lives squarely inside familiar fluxonium control and readout practice, but uses disjoint-support wavefunctions and sweet-spot operation to suppress matrix elements before the error ever reaches the decoder.blochniumis the duality branch. Read it when the interesting claim is quasicharge physics, large anharmonicity, and flux-dispersion flattening, not maximal passive protection in the 0-π sense.0-pi-qubitandcos2phi-qubitare the symmetry-engineered protection branch. They belong together because both aim for multi-axis protection by reshaping the circuit potential itself, even though0-pi-qubitis experimentally ahead andcos2phi-qubitis still a more aspirational construction.dual-rail-superconducting-qubitshould sit adjacent to this branch, not inside it: the payoff is still lower logical overhead, but via flagged leakage and erasure structure rather than suppressed in-code-space matrix elements.
Boundary with the super-semi family
Route superconducting descendants to super-semi-moc only when the semiconductor weak link or Andreev physics becomes part of the qubit’s defining control story. If the central claim is still protected superconducting-circuit design, cavity coupling, or oscillator-level encoding, keep it here even when the fabrication stack overlaps materially with hybrid devices.
Editorial note
This family mixes bare qubits, bosonic encodings, and enabling infrastructure. Keep the generated table exhaustive, but use the evergreen layer to prevent the family page from becoming a flat list.