Correlated Charge Noise and Relaxation Errors in Superconducting Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06029v2
• Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:22:18 GMT
• Title: Correlated Charge Noise and Relaxation Errors in Superconducting Qubits
• Authors: C. D. Wilen (1), S. Abdullah (1), N. A. Kurinsky (2,3), C. Stanford (4), L. Cardani (5), G. D'Imperio (5), C. Tomei (5), L.Faoro (1,6), L. B. Ioffe (7), C. H. Liu (1), A. Opremcak (1), B. G. Christensen (1), J. L. DuBois (8), and R. McDermott (1) ((1) University of Wisconsin-Madison, (2) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, (3) Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, (4) Stanford University, (5) INFN Sezione di Roma, (6) Sorbonne Universite, (7) Google, (8) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Abstract summary: We characterize a superconducting multiqubit circuit and find that charge fluctuations are highly correlated on a length scale over 600$mu$m. The resulting correlated errors are explained in terms of the charging event and phonon-mediated quasiparticle poisoning associated with absorption of gamma rays and cosmic-ray muons in the qubit substrate.
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• Abstract: The central challenge in building a quantum computer is error correction. Unlike classical bits, which are susceptible to only one type of error, quantum bits ("qubits") are susceptible to two types of error, corresponding to flips of the qubit state about the $X$- and $Z$-directions. While the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle precludes simultaneous monitoring of $X$- and $Z$-flips on a single qubit, it is possible to encode quantum information in large arrays of entangled qubits that enable accurate monitoring of all errors in the system, provided the error rate is low. Another crucial requirement is that errors cannot be correlated. Here, we characterize a superconducting multiqubit circuit and find that charge fluctuations are highly correlated on a length scale over 600~$\mu$m; moreover, discrete charge jumps are accompanied by a strong transient suppression of qubit energy relaxation time across the millimeter-scale chip. The resulting correlated errors are explained in terms of the charging event and phonon-mediated quasiparticle poisoning associated with absorption of gamma rays and cosmic-ray muons in the qubit substrate. Robust quantum error correction will require the development of mitigation strategies to protect multiqubit arrays from correlated errors due to particle impacts.

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