Publications by Mahdi Chegnizadeh

Compact Superconducting Vacuum-gap Capacitors with Low Microwave Loss and High Mechanical Coherence for Scalable Quantum Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Marco Scigliuzzo

Vacuum-gap capacitors have recently attracted significant interest in superconducting circuit platforms due to their compact design and exceptionally low dielectric losses in the microwave regime. Their intrinsic ability to support mechanical vibrational m ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Quantum collective motion of macroscopic mechanical oscillators

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono, Marco Scigliuzzo

Collective phenomena arise from interactions within complex systems, leading to behaviors absent in individual components. Observing quantum collective phenomena with macroscopic mechanical oscillators has been impeded by the stringent requirement that osc ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2024

Mechanically induced correlated errors on superconducting qubits with relaxation times exceeding 0.4 ms

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Xuxin Wang, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono, Marco Scigliuzzo

Superconducting qubits are among the most advanced candidates for achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. Despite recent significant advancements in the qubit lifetimes, the origin of the loss mechanism for state-of-the-art qubits is still subject to i ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A squeezed mechanical oscillator with millisecond quantum decoherence

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Shingo Kono

An enduring challenge in constructing mechanical-oscillator-based hybrid quantum systems is to ensure engineered coupling to an auxiliary degree of freedom and maintain good mechanical isolation from the environment, that is, low quantum decoherence, consi ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Topological lattices realized in superconducting circuit optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Tatiana Vovk, Mahdi Chegnizadeh, Andrea Bancora, Shingo Kono

Cavity optomechanics enables the control of mechanical motion through the radiation-pressure interaction(1), and has contributed to the quantum control of engineered mechanical systems ranging from kilogramme-scale Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave O ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022