The performance of many superconducting devices is diminished by long-lived Bogoliubov quasiparticle excitations present in the superconducting part. In normal-metal–insulator– superconductor structured micro-refrigerators, for example, the tunneling of quasiparticles into the normal metal and the accompanying backflow of heat just extracted from it, reduces the cooling efficiency. In superconducting qubits incoherent quasiparticle tunneling through Josephson junctions leads to qubit decoherence and relaxation. While the associated rates are small compared to those of currently more serious noise sources, quasiparticle tunneling is expected to be relevant for fulfilling the high requirements given by current quantum com-putation tasks based...