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At a glance

82 papers: 3 on the QICK system itself, and 79 across 9 platforms and applications.

System & software

QICK system

3

Qubit & computing platforms

Superconducting circuits	55
Spin defects	7
Quantum dots	4
Biological qubits (new)	2
Ultracold molecules	2
Neutral atoms	1

Quantum sensing & detection

Dark matter detection	3
Single-photon detection	3
Quantum sensors and MKIDs	2

Paper counts

These stats were computed from the next section’s list of QICK papers as of May 2, 2026.

Papers using QICK

This list of academic papers that used the QICK was last updated July 23, 2026.

QICK system

• Martin, D. et al. XCOM: Full Mesh Network Synchronization and Low-Latency Communication for QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit). (2026).

• Ding, C. et al. Experimental advances with the QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit) for superconducting quantum hardware. (2023).

• Stefanazzi, L. et al. The QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit): Readout and control for qubits and detectors. (2021).

Superconducting circuits

Autonomous control with QICK

• Li, S. et al. Large Language Model-Assisted Superconducting Qubit Experiments (2026).

Neural network + QICK

• Gaytan-Villarreal, D. et al. Real-Time Detection of Charge Jumps in Superconducting Qubits with a Convolutional Neural Network. (2026).

• Guglielmo, G. et al. End-to-end workflow for machine learning-based qubit readout with QICK and hls4ml. (2025).

Scaling

• Hoyt, A. et al. QASMTrans: An End-to-End QASM Compilation Framework with Pulse Generation for Near-Term Quantum Devices (2026).

• Li, A. et al. NWQWorkflow: The Northwest Quantum Workflow (2026).

• Silva, A. et al. Manarat: A Scalable QICK-Based Control System for Superconducting Quantum Processors Supporting Synchronized Control of 10 Flux-Tunable Qubits. (2025).

Quantum error correction hardware

• Huang, J. et al. Universal Jaynes-Cummings Control of an Oscillator. (2026).

• Cochran, J. et al. Experimental signatures of a sigma-z sigma-x beam-splitter interaction between a Kerr-cat and transmon qubit. (2025).

• Li, Z. et al. A Cascaded Random Access Quantum Memory. (2025).

• Huang, J. et al. Fast Sideband Control of a Weakly Coupled Multimode Bosonic Memory. (2025).

Quantum simulation

• Mucci, M. et al. A superconducting quantum circuit single artificial atom maser. (2026).

• Molinelli, M. et al. Chiral and bond-ordered phases in a triangular-ladder superconducting-qubit quantum simulator. (2026).

• Martinez, J.G.C. et al. Flat-band localization and interaction-induced delocalization of photons. (2023).

Gates/couplers

• Xia, M. et al. Exceeding the Parametric Drive Strength Threshold in Nonlinear Circuits. (2025).

• Miao, C. et al. Implementation of a quantum addressable router using superconducting qubits. (2025).

• Cao, X. et al. Parametrically controlled chiral interface for superconducting quantum devices. (2024).

• Ye, Y. et al. Near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling in superconducting circuits. (2024).

• Zhang, H. et al. Tunable inductive coupler for high fidelity gates between fluxonium qubits. (2023).

• Xia, M. et al. Fast superconducting qubit control with subharmonic drives. (2023).

• Johnson, H. et al. Exploration of Optimizing FPGA-based Qubit Controller for Experiments on Superconducting Quantum Computing Hardware. (2023).

Coherence

• Olszewski, M. et al. Krypton-sputtered tantalum films for scalable high-performance quantum devices. (2026).

• Wang, Q. et al. Spectroscopy and Coherent Control of Two-Level System Defect Ensembles Using a Broadband 3D Waveguide. (2025).

• Huang, S. et al. Towards a hybrid 3D transmon qubit with topological insulator-based Josephson junctions. (2025).

• Wang, Q. et al. Evidence of Memory Effects in the Dynamics of Two-Level System Defect Ensembles Using Broadband, Cryogenic Transient Dielectric Spectroscopy. (2025).

• Bland, M. et al. 2D transmons with lifetimes and coherence times exceeding 1 millisecond. (2025).

• Kumar, S. et al. Protomon: A Multimode Qubit in the Fluxonium Molecule. (2024).

• Chang, R.D. et al. Eliminating Surface Oxides of Superconducting Circuits with Noble Metal Encapsulation. (2024).

• McFadden, A. et al. Fabrication and characterization of low-loss Al/Si/Al parallel plate capacitors for superconducting quantum information applications. (2024).

• Tuokkola, M. et al. Methods to achieve near-millisecond energy relaxation and dephasing times for a superconducting transmon qubit. (2024).

• Oriani, A.E. et al. Niobium coaxial cavities with internal quality factors exceeding 1.5 billion for circuit quantum electrodynamics. (2024).

• Anferov, A. et al. Superconducting Qubits Above 20 GHz Operating over 200 mK. (2024).

• Anferov, A. et al. Improved Coherence in Optically-Defined Niobium Trilayer Junction Qubits. (2023).

Radiative loss

• De Dominicis, F. et al. Evaluating radiation impact on transmon qubits in above and underground facilities. (2024).

• Bratrud, G. et al. First Measurement of Correlated Charge Noise in Superconducting Qubits at an Underground Facility. (2024).

• Odeh, M. et al. Non-Markovian dynamics of a superconducting qubit in a phononic bandgap. (2023).

Readout

• Dixit, A. et al. Millimeter Wave Readout of a Superconducting Qubit. (2026).

• Gibson, J. et al. A scanning resonator for probing quantum coherent devices. (2025).

• Smitham, B. et al. Sub-resonant wideband superconducting Purcell filters. (2025).

• Johnson, H. et al. Demonstrating the Potential of Adaptive LMS Filtering on FPGA-Based Qubit Control Platforms for Improved Qubit Readout in 2D and 3D Quantum Processing Units. (2024).

• Yen, A. et al. Interferometric Purcell suppression of spontaneous emission in a superconducting qubit. (2024).

• Yen, A. et al. Directional emission of a readout resonator for qubit measurement. (2024).

• Bryon, J. et al. Experimental verification of the treatment of time-dependent flux in circuit quantization. (2022).

Parametric amplifiers

• Hao, Z. et al. Wireless Josephson parametric amplifier above 20 GHz. (2025).

• Wang, J. et al. High-Efficiency, Low-Loss Floquet-Mode Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier. (2025).

• Bosellli, M. et al. Observation and mitigation of microwave echoes from dielectric defects in Josephson traveling wave amplifiers. (2025).

Transduction

• Baptista, A.E. et al. Parametrically induced strong coupling between a superconducting quantum circuit and a solid-state spin ensemble. (2026).

• Warner, H.K. et al. Coherent control of a superconducting qubit using light. (2023).

Quantum acoustic systems

• Undershute, C. et al. Decoherence of surface phonons in a quantum acoustic system. (2024).

Open source control with the Qibo/QICK stack (Qibolab/Qibosoq)

• Pasquale, A. et al. Qibocal: an open-source framework for calibration of self-hosted quantum devices. (2024).

• Moretti, R. et al. Transmon qubit modeling and characterization for Dark Matter search. (2024).

• Pedicillo, E. et al. An open-source framework for quantum hardware control. (2024).

• D’Elia, A. et al. Characterization of a Transmon Qubit in a 3D Cavity for Quantum Machine Learning and Photon Counting. (2024).

• Carobene, R. et al. Qibosoq: an open-source framework for quantum circuit RFSoC programming. (2023).

• Efthymiou, S. et al. Qibolab: an open-source hybrid quantum operating system. (2023).

• Cruz-Martinez, J.M. et al. Multi-variable integration with a variational quantum circuit. (2023).

Spin defects

• Marcenac, V. et al. Sub-nanosecond control for spin-defect quantum memories with a low-cost, compact FPGA platform. (2026).

• Katsumi, R. et al. Chiral microwave metasurface for controlling spins in diamond. (2026).

• Elmslie, T. et al. Homogeneous Microwave Delivery for Quantum Sensing with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers at High Pressures. (2026).

• Sadi, M. et al. Landau Zener Interaction Enhanced Quantum Sensing in Spin Defects of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. (2026).

• Sadi, M. et al. Spin-State Selective Excitation in Spin Defects of Hexagonal Boron Nitride. (2025).

• Ivory, M. et al. QCaMP: A 4-Week Summer Camp Introducing High School Students to Quantum Information Science and Technology. (2025).

• Riendeau, E.G. et al. Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit – Defect Arbitrary Waveform Generator (QICK-DAWG): A Quantum Sensing Control Framework for Quantum Defects. (2023).

Quantum dots

• El Hajj, D. et al. Preliminary Demonstration of Spin Qubit Control Using the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK). (2026).

• Shinozaki, M. et al. Perfect impedance matching unlocks sensitive radio-frequency reflectometry in 2D material quantum dots. (2025).

• Koong, Z. et al. Coherent Control of Quantum-Dot Spins with Cyclic Optical Transitions. (2025).

• Shinozaki, M. et al. RFSoC-based radio-frequency reflectometry in gate-defined bilayer graphene quantum devices. (2025).

Biological qubits

• Ramos-Silva, J.N. et al. A Pulsed Live-Cell Quantum Microscope for Entangled Solid State and Biological Qubits. (2026).

• Feder, J. et al. A fluorescent-protein spin qubit. (2024).

Ultracold molecules

• Ruttley, D.K. et al. Harnessing resonant dipolar interactions in a hybrid atom-molecule quantum system. (2026).

• Raghuram, A.P. et al. Probing topological edge states in a molecular synthetic dimension. (2026).

Neutral atoms

• Zhang, B. et al. Leveraging erasure errors in logical qubits with metastable 171Yb atoms. (2025).

Dark matter detection

• Hoshino, G. et al. First Axion-Like Particle Results from a Broadband Search for Wave-Like Dark Matter in the 44 to 52 ueV Range with a Coaxial Dish Antenna. (2025).

• Zhao, F. et al. A Flux-Tunable cavity for Dark matter detection. (2025).

• Knirck, S. et al. First Results from a Broadband Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter in the 44 to 52 ueV range with a coaxial dish antenna. (2023).

Single-photon detection

• Linne, K. et al. PhotonIDs: ML-Powered Photon Identification System for Dark Count Elimination. (2025).

• Linne, K. et al. SQuaD: Smart Quantum Detection for Photon Recognition and Dark Count Elimination. (2025).

• Xie, S. et al. Entangled Photon Pair Source Demonstrator using the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit System. (2023).

Quantum sensors and MKIDs

• Magoon, H. et al. A First Demonstration of the SQUAT Detector Architecture: Direct Measurement of Resonator-Free Charge-Sensitive Transmons. (2026).

• Stifter, K. et al. Cryogenic optical beam steering for superconducting device calibration. (2024).