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Tantalum-based superconducting qubits, while offering reduced dielectric losses, exhibit significant sensitivity to infrared radiation, unlike niobium-based qubits. This IR sensitivity contributes markedly to decoherence in tantalum systems, necessitating targeted filtering. The observed time-dependent tunneling rates suggest slowly cooling components in experimental setups introduce radiant thermal noise, highlighting the critical need to address radiative backgrounds in future qubit platform designs for improved coherence.
Cross-platform verification — confirming that separate quantum modules prepare identical quantum states — is a prerequisite for modular quantum computing scalability, but classical-communication-only protocols scale exponentially in qubit count. This work demonstrates on a six-qubit flip-chip superconducting device (two 3-qubit modules) that introducing a single inter-module two-qubit gate breaks the exponential scaling barrier, achieving sub-exponential resource requirements. The practical payoff is a 4× reduction in required measurement repetitions for 3-qubit states, with greater gains projected as system size and fidelity increase.