Preparation and Readout Methods for Noise Protected Superconducting Qubits*

Protected quantum circuits are promising candidates to serve as the building blocks of fault-tolerant universal quantum computers. However, initialization and readout of noise protected superconducting qubits presents a fundamental challenge to their experimental demonstration. In this talk, we present concepts for preparation and readout methods that would allow for experimental demonstration of enhanced coherence of a noise protected qubit, where the enhanced coherence is enabled by reduced sensitivity to environmental noise.