N.P. de Leon

First name

N.P.

Last name

de Leon

Place, A.P.M., L.V.H. Rodgers, P. Mundada, B.M. Smitham, M. Fitzpatrick, Z. Leng, A. Premkumar, et al. 2021. “New Material Platform for Superconducting Transmon Qubits With Coherence Times Exceeding 0.3 Milliseconds”. Nature Communications 12 (1779).

de Leon, N.P., K.M. Itoh, D. Kim, K.K. Mehta, T.E. Northup, H. Paik, B.S. Palmer, N. Samarth, S. Sangtawesin, and D.W. Steuerman. 2021. “Materials Challenges and Opportunities for Quantum Computing Hardware”. Science 372 (6539).

McLellan, R.A., A. Dutta, C. Zhou, Y. Jia, C. Weiland, X. Gui, A.P.M. Place, et al. 2023. “Chemical Profiles of the Oxides on Tantalum in State of the Art Superconducting Circuits”. Advanced Science 10 (2300921).

Crowley, K.D., R.A. McLellan, A. Dutta, N. Shumiya, A.P.M. Place, X.H. Le, Y. Gang, et al. 2023. “Disentangling Losses in Tantalum Superconducting Circuits”. Physical Review X 13 (041005).

Chang, R.D., N. Shumiya, R.A. McLellan, Y. Zhang, M.P. Bland, F. Bahrami, J. Mun, et al. 2025. “Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits With Noble Metal Encapsulation”. Physical Review Letters 134 (097001).

Joshi, A., A. Jindal, P.H. Prestegaard, F. Bahrami, E. Hedrick, M.P. Bland, T. Gerg, et al. n.d. “Beta Tantalum Transmon Qubits With Quality Factors Approaching 10 Million”. ArXiv 2603.13174.

Bland, M.P., F. Bahrami, J.G.C. Martinez, P.H. Prestegaard, B.M. Smitham, A. Joshi, E. Hedrick, et al. 2025. “Millisecond Lifetimes and Coherence Times in 2D Transmon Qubits”. Nature 647: 343-48.

Hedrick, E., F. Bahrami, A.C. Pakpour-Tabrizi, A. Joshi, Q.R. Rahman, A. Yang, R.D. Chang, et al. 2026. “Quantifying Surface Losses in Superconducting Aluminum Microwave Resonators”. MRS Bulletin.

Bahrami, F., M.P. Bland, N. Shumiya, R.D. Chang, E. Hedrick, R.A. McLellan, K.D. Crowley, et al. 2026. “Vortex Motion Induced Losses in Tantalum Resonators”. Physics Review B 113 (054505).

Yang, C., F. Bahrami, G. Cheng, M. Feldman, T. Liu, N. Shumiya, N. Yao, et al. 2026. “Tantalum Alloy–based Resonators for Quantum Information Systems”. PNAS 123 (5).