Universal Nonadiabatic Control of Small-Gap Superconducting Qubits

© 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Resonant transverse driving of a two-level system as viewed in the rotating frame couples two degenerate states at the Rabi frequency, an equivalence that emerges in quantum mechanics. While successful at controlling natural and artificial...

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Autores principales: Campbell, Daniel L, Shim, Yun-Pil, Kannan, Bharath, Winik, Roni, Kim, David K, Melville, Alexander, Niedzielski, Bethany M, Yoder, Jonilyn L, Tahan, Charles, Gustavsson, Simon, Oliver, William D
Otros Autores: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Physical Society (APS) 2021
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133662
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author Campbell, Daniel L
Shim, Yun-Pil
Kannan, Bharath
Winik, Roni
Kim, David K
Melville, Alexander
Niedzielski, Bethany M
Yoder, Jonilyn L
Tahan, Charles
Gustavsson, Simon
Oliver, William D
author2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
author_facet Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Campbell, Daniel L
Shim, Yun-Pil
Kannan, Bharath
Winik, Roni
Kim, David K
Melville, Alexander
Niedzielski, Bethany M
Yoder, Jonilyn L
Tahan, Charles
Gustavsson, Simon
Oliver, William D
author_sort Campbell, Daniel L
collection MIT
description © 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Resonant transverse driving of a two-level system as viewed in the rotating frame couples two degenerate states at the Rabi frequency, an equivalence that emerges in quantum mechanics. While successful at controlling natural and artificial quantum systems, certain limitations may arise (e.g., the achievable gate speed) due to nonidealities like the counterrotating term. We introduce a superconducting composite qubit (CQB), formed from two capacitively coupled transmon qubits, which features a small avoided crossing - smaller than the environmental temperature - between two energy levels. We control this low-frequency CQB using solely baseband pulses, nonadiabatic transitions, and coherent Landau-Zener interference to achieve fast, high-fidelity, single-qubit operations with Clifford fidelities exceeding 99.7%. We also perform coupled qubit operations between two low-frequency CQBs. This work demonstrates that universal nonadiabatic control of low-frequency qubits is feasible using solely baseband pulses.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1336622023-03-15T18:52:52Z Universal Nonadiabatic Control of Small-Gap Superconducting Qubits Campbell, Daniel L Shim, Yun-Pil Kannan, Bharath Winik, Roni Kim, David K Melville, Alexander Niedzielski, Bethany M Yoder, Jonilyn L Tahan, Charles Gustavsson, Simon Oliver, William D Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics © 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Resonant transverse driving of a two-level system as viewed in the rotating frame couples two degenerate states at the Rabi frequency, an equivalence that emerges in quantum mechanics. While successful at controlling natural and artificial quantum systems, certain limitations may arise (e.g., the achievable gate speed) due to nonidealities like the counterrotating term. We introduce a superconducting composite qubit (CQB), formed from two capacitively coupled transmon qubits, which features a small avoided crossing - smaller than the environmental temperature - between two energy levels. We control this low-frequency CQB using solely baseband pulses, nonadiabatic transitions, and coherent Landau-Zener interference to achieve fast, high-fidelity, single-qubit operations with Clifford fidelities exceeding 99.7%. We also perform coupled qubit operations between two low-frequency CQBs. This work demonstrates that universal nonadiabatic control of low-frequency qubits is feasible using solely baseband pulses. 2021-10-27T19:54:03Z 2021-10-27T19:54:03Z 2020 2021-01-29T19:44:54Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133662 en 10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041051 Physical Review X Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf American Physical Society (APS) APS
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Shim, Yun-Pil
Kannan, Bharath
Winik, Roni
Kim, David K
Melville, Alexander
Niedzielski, Bethany M
Yoder, Jonilyn L
Tahan, Charles
Gustavsson, Simon
Oliver, William D
Universal Nonadiabatic Control of Small-Gap Superconducting Qubits
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