Materials for Quantum Information Science: Roles in the Quantum Evolution 2.0

Quantum Physics arXiv:2609.09371 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 8 Sep 2026] Title:Materials for Quantum Information Science: Roles in the Quantum Evolution 2.0 Authors:Thang Pham, Vsevolod Ivanov, Dominic P. Goronzy, Abhiram Devata, Joshua Feldon, David Barton, You Zhou View a PDF of the paper titled Materials for Quantum Information Science: Roles in the Quantum Evolution 2.0, by Thang Pham and Vsevolod Ivanov and Dominic P. Goronzy and Abhiram Devata and Joshua Feldon and David Barton and You Zhou View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Quantum information science is entering a second phase, the Quantum Evolution 2.0, in which the challenge has shifted from demonstrating coherent control of individual quantum states to building scalable multi-qubit processors and networks. This transition places materials science at the center of the field. Across superconducting circuits, quantum defects, quantum photonic devices, and emerging materials platforms, including two-dimensional materials and heterostructures, performance is now limited less by device design than by poorly controlled surfaces, buried interfaces, and defects whose atomic identities remain incompletely known. This review surveys the materials challenges of these quantum platforms together with the characterization methods needed to resolve them. For each platform we identify the dominant decoherence mechanisms, the current state of materials understanding, and the most pressing open materials problems. A cross-platform comparison then reveals a shared structure-coherence problem. The implicated material chemistry recurs across platforms, involving light elements in disordered or buried environments, yet no platform can quantitatively connect a specific atomic-scale structure to a measured change in coherence. We close by identifying three needs, mechanistic understanding of decoherence at the atomistic level, high-throughput proxy metrics predictive of device performance, and characterization tools built for quantum materials, whose resolution would advance coherence, scalability, and integration across all platforms. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2609.09371 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2609.09371v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.09371 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Vsevolod Ivanov [view email] [v1] Tue, 8 Sep 2026 19:09:42 UTC (18,333 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Materials for Quantum Information Science: Roles in the Quantum Evolution 2.0, by Thang Pham and Vsevolod Ivanov and Dominic P. Goronzy and Abhiram Devata and Joshua Feldon and David Barton and You ZhouView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-09 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)