Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium

Qubit decoherence unavoidably degrades the fidelity of quantum logic gates. Accordingly, realizing gates that are as fast as possible is a guiding principle for qubit control, necessitating protocols for mitigating error channels that become significant as gate time is decreased. One such error chan...

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Main Authors: David A. Rower, Leon Ding, Helin Zhang, Max Hays, Junyoung An, Patrick M. Harrington, Ilan T. Rosen, Jeffrey M. Gertler, Thomas M. Hazard, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Mollie E. Schwartz, Simon Gustavsson, Kyle Serniak, Jeffrey A. Grover, William D. Oliver
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Published: American Physical Society 2024-12-01
Series:PRX Quantum
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.040342
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author David A. Rower
Leon Ding
Helin Zhang
Max Hays
Junyoung An
Patrick M. Harrington
Ilan T. Rosen
Jeffrey M. Gertler
Thomas M. Hazard
Bethany M. Niedzielski
Mollie E. Schwartz
Simon Gustavsson
Kyle Serniak
Jeffrey A. Grover
William D. Oliver
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Leon Ding
Helin Zhang
Max Hays
Junyoung An
Patrick M. Harrington
Ilan T. Rosen
Jeffrey M. Gertler
Thomas M. Hazard
Bethany M. Niedzielski
Mollie E. Schwartz
Simon Gustavsson
Kyle Serniak
Jeffrey A. Grover
William D. Oliver
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description Qubit decoherence unavoidably degrades the fidelity of quantum logic gates. Accordingly, realizing gates that are as fast as possible is a guiding principle for qubit control, necessitating protocols for mitigating error channels that become significant as gate time is decreased. One such error channel arises from the counter-rotating component of strong, linearly polarized drives. This error channel is particularly important when gate times approach the qubit Larmor period and represents the dominant source of infidelity for sufficiently fast single-qubit gates with low-frequency qubits such as fluxonium. In this work, we develop and demonstrate two complementary protocols for mitigating this error channel. The first protocol realizes circularly polarized driving in circuit QED through simultaneous charge and flux control. The second protocol—commensurate pulses—leverages the coherent and periodic nature of counter-rotating fields to regularize their contributions to gates, enabling single-qubit gate fidelities reliably exceeding 99.997%. This protocol is platform independent and requires no additional calibration overhead. This work establishes straightforward strategies for mitigating counter-rotating effects from strong drives in circuit QED and other platforms, which we expect to be helpful in the effort to realize high-fidelity control for fault-tolerant quantum computing.
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spelling doaj-art-112e7ea9e4e64fdebb0fc3ef605179182024-12-13T15:04:43ZengAmerican Physical SocietyPRX Quantum2691-33992024-12-015404034210.1103/PRXQuantum.5.040342Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with FluxoniumDavid A. RowerLeon DingHelin ZhangMax HaysJunyoung AnPatrick M. HarringtonIlan T. RosenJeffrey M. GertlerThomas M. HazardBethany M. NiedzielskiMollie E. SchwartzSimon GustavssonKyle SerniakJeffrey A. GroverWilliam D. OliverQubit decoherence unavoidably degrades the fidelity of quantum logic gates. Accordingly, realizing gates that are as fast as possible is a guiding principle for qubit control, necessitating protocols for mitigating error channels that become significant as gate time is decreased. One such error channel arises from the counter-rotating component of strong, linearly polarized drives. This error channel is particularly important when gate times approach the qubit Larmor period and represents the dominant source of infidelity for sufficiently fast single-qubit gates with low-frequency qubits such as fluxonium. In this work, we develop and demonstrate two complementary protocols for mitigating this error channel. The first protocol realizes circularly polarized driving in circuit QED through simultaneous charge and flux control. The second protocol—commensurate pulses—leverages the coherent and periodic nature of counter-rotating fields to regularize their contributions to gates, enabling single-qubit gate fidelities reliably exceeding 99.997%. This protocol is platform independent and requires no additional calibration overhead. This work establishes straightforward strategies for mitigating counter-rotating effects from strong drives in circuit QED and other platforms, which we expect to be helpful in the effort to realize high-fidelity control for fault-tolerant quantum computing.http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.040342
spellingShingle David A. Rower
Leon Ding
Helin Zhang
Max Hays
Junyoung An
Patrick M. Harrington
Ilan T. Rosen
Jeffrey M. Gertler
Thomas M. Hazard
Bethany M. Niedzielski
Mollie E. Schwartz
Simon Gustavsson
Kyle Serniak
Jeffrey A. Grover
William D. Oliver
Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium
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title Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium
title_full Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium
title_fullStr Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium
title_full_unstemmed Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium
title_short Suppressing Counter-Rotating Errors for Fast Single-Qubit Gates with Fluxonium
title_sort suppressing counter rotating errors for fast single qubit gates with fluxonium
url http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.040342
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