Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05219v1
• Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:03:23 GMT
• Title: Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubits
• Authors: Matt McEwen, Lara Faoro, Kunal Arya, Andrew Dunsworth, Trent Huang, Seon Kim, Brian Burkett, Austin Fowler, Frank Arute, Joseph C. Bardin, Andreas Bengtsson, Alexander Bilmes, Bob B. Buckley, Nicholas Bushnell, Zijun Chen, Roberto Collins, Sean Demura, Alan R. Derk, Catherine Erickson, Marissa Giustina, Sean D. Harrington, Sabrina Hong, Evan Jeffrey, Julian Kelly, Paul V. Klimov, Fedor Kostritsa, Pavel Laptev, Aditya Locharla, Xiao Mi, Kevin C. Miao, Shirin Montazeri, Josh Mutus, Ofer Naaman, Matthew Neeley, Charles Neill, Alex Opremcak, Chris Quintana, Nicholas Redd, Pedram Roushan, Daniel Sank, Kevin J. Satzinger, Vladimir Shvarts, Theodore White, Z. Jamie Yao, Ping Yeh, Juhwan Yoo, Yu Chen, Vadim Smelyanskiy, John M. Martinis, Hartmut Neven, Anthony Megrant, Lev Ioffe, Rami Barends
• Abstract summary: High-energy radiation has been identified as a source of error in pilot superconducting quantum devices. Here, we observe high-energy rays impacting a large-scale quantum processor. We identify large bursts of quasiparticles that simultaneously and severely limit the energy coherence of all qubits, causing chip-wide failure.
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• Abstract: Scalable quantum computing can become a reality with error correction, provided coherent qubits can be constructed in large arrays. The key premise is that physical errors can remain both small and sufficiently uncorrelated as devices scale, so that logical error rates can be exponentially suppressed. However, energetic impacts from cosmic rays and latent radioactivity violate both of these assumptions. An impinging particle ionizes the substrate, radiating high energy phonons that induce a burst of quasiparticles, destroying qubit coherence throughout the device. High-energy radiation has been identified as a source of error in pilot superconducting quantum devices, but lacking a measurement technique able to resolve a single event in detail, the effect on large scale algorithms and error correction in particular remains an open question. Elucidating the physics involved requires operating large numbers of qubits at the same rapid timescales as in error correction, exposing the event's evolution in time and spread in space. Here, we directly observe high-energy rays impacting a large-scale quantum processor. We introduce a rapid space and time-multiplexed measurement method and identify large bursts of quasiparticles that simultaneously and severely limit the energy coherence of all qubits, causing chip-wide failure. We track the events from their initial localised impact to high error rates across the chip. Our results provide direct insights into the scale and dynamics of these damaging error bursts in large-scale devices, and highlight the necessity of mitigation to enable quantum computing to scale.

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