Coherent control of a hybrid superconducting circuit made with graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures

Quantum coherence and control is foundational to the science and engineering of quantum systems 1 , 2 . In van der Waals materials, the collective coherent behaviour of carriers has been probed successfully by transport measurements 3 – 6 . However, temporal coherence and control, as exemplified by manipulating a single quantum degree of freedom, remains to be verified. Here we demonstrate such coherence and control of a superconducting circuit incorporating graphene-based Josephson junctions. Furthermore, we show that this device can be operated as a voltage-tunable transmon qubit 7 – 9 , whose spectrum reflects the electronic properties of massless Dirac fermions travelling ballistically 4 , 5 . In addition to the potential for advancing extensible quantum computing technology, our results represent a new approach to studying van der Waals materials using microwave photons in coherent quantum circuits.