High-Fidelity, Frequency-Flexible Two-Qubit Fluxonium Gates with a Transmon Coupler

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06087v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 18:08:53 GMT
• Title: High-Fidelity, Frequency-Flexible Two-Qubit Fluxonium Gates with a Transmon Coupler
• Authors: Leon Ding, Max Hays, Youngkyu Sung, Bharath Kannan, Junyoung An, Agustin Di Paolo, Amir H. Karamlou, Thomas M. Hazard, Kate Azar, David K. Kim, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Alexander Melville, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, Jeffrey A. Grover, Kyle Serniak, William D. Oliver
• Abstract summary: We propose and demonstrate an architecture for fluxonium-fluxonium two-qubit gates mediated by transmon couplers (FTF) FTF enables stronger couplings for gates using non-computational states while simultaneously suppressing the static controlled-phase entangling rate ($ZZ$) down to kHz levels. We show that FTF can be applied to a variety of fluxonium gate schemes to improve gate fidelities and passively reduce unwanted $ZZ$ interactions.
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• Abstract: We propose and demonstrate an architecture for fluxonium-fluxonium two-qubit gates mediated by transmon couplers (FTF, for fluxonium-transmon-fluxonium). Relative to architectures that exclusively rely on a direct coupling between fluxonium qubits, FTF enables stronger couplings for gates using non-computational states while simultaneously suppressing the static controlled-phase entangling rate ($ZZ$) down to kHz levels, all without requiring strict parameter matching. Here we implement FTF with a flux-tunable transmon coupler and demonstrate a microwave-activated controlled-Z (CZ) gate whose operation frequency can be tuned over a 2 GHz range, adding frequency allocation freedom for FTF's in larger systems. Across this range, state-of-the-art CZ gate fidelities were observed over many bias points and reproduced across the two devices characterized in this work. After optimizing both the operation frequency and the gate duration, we achieved peak CZ fidelities in the 99.85-99.9\% range. Finally, we implemented model-free reinforcement learning of the pulse parameters to boost the mean gate fidelity up to $99.922\pm0.009\%$, averaged over roughly an hour between scheduled training runs. Beyond the microwave-activated CZ gate we present here, FTF can be applied to a variety of other fluxonium gate schemes to improve gate fidelities and passively reduce unwanted $ZZ$ interactions.

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