Identification of different types of high-frequency defects in superconducting qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05391v3
• Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 21:56:22 GMT
• Title: Identification of different types of high-frequency defects in superconducting qubits
• Authors: Leonid V. Abdurakhimov, Imran Mahboob, Hiraku Toida, Kosuke Kakuyanagi, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Shiro Saito
• Abstract summary: Parasitic two-level-system (TLS) defects are one of the major factors limiting the coherence times of superconducting qubits. Here we present an experimental method of TLS defect spectroscopy using a strong qubit drive.
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• Abstract: Parasitic two-level-system (TLS) defects are one of the major factors limiting the coherence times of superconducting qubits. Although there has been significant progress in characterizing basic parameters of TLS defects, exact mechanisms of interactions between a qubit and various types of TLS defects remained largely unexplored due to the lack of experimental techniques able to probe the form of qubit-defect couplings. Here we present an experimental method of TLS defect spectroscopy using a strong qubit drive that allowed us to distinguish between various types of qubit-defect interactions. By applying this method to a capacitively shunted flux qubit, we detected a rare type of TLS defect with a nonlinear qubit-defect coupling due to critical-current fluctuations, as well as conventional TLS defects with a linear coupling to the qubit caused by charge fluctuations. The presented approach could become the routine method for high-frequency defect inspection and quality control in superconducting qubit fabrication, providing essential feedback for fabrication process optimization. The reported method is a powerful tool to uniquely identify the type of noise fluctuations caused by TLS defects, enabling the development of realistic noise models relevant to noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computing and fault-tolerant quantum control.

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