Fast superconducting qubit control with sub-harmonic drives

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10162v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:04:27 GMT
• Title: Fast superconducting qubit control with sub-harmonic drives
• Authors: Mingkang Xia, Chao Zhou, Chenxu Liu, Param Patel, Xi Cao, Pinlei Lu, Boris Mesits, Maria Mucci, David Gorski, David Pekker, Michael Hatridge
• Abstract summary: We introduce a new parametric driving scheme to perform single-qubit control. We achieve rapid gate speed by pumping the transmon's native Kerr term at approximately one third of the qubit's resonant frequency. We demonstrate pulses as short as tens of nanoseconds with fidelity as high as 99.7%, limited by the modest coherence of our transmon.
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• Abstract: Increasing the fidelity of single-qubit gates requires a combination of faster pulses and increased qubit coherence. However, with resonant qubit drive via a capacitively coupled port, these two objectives are mutually contradictory, as higher qubit quality factor requires a weaker coupling, necessitating longer pulses for the same applied power. Increasing drive power, on the other hand, can heat the qubit's environment and degrade coherence. In this work, by using the inherent non-linearity of the transmon qubit, we circumvent this issue by introducing a new parametric driving scheme to perform single-qubit control. Specifically, we achieve rapid gate speed by pumping the transmon's native Kerr term at approximately one third of the qubit's resonant frequency. Given that transmons typically operate within a fairly narrow range of anharmonicity, this technique is applicable to all transmons. In both theory and experiment, we show that the Rabi rate of the process is proportional to applied drive amplitude cubed, allowing for rapid gate speed with only modest increases in applied power. In addition, we demonstrate that filtering can be used to protect the qubit's coherence while performing rapid gates, and present theoretical calculations indicating that decay due to multi-photon losses, even in very strongly coupled drive lines, will not limit qubit lifetime. We demonstrate $\pi/2$ pulses as short as tens of nanoseconds with fidelity as high as 99.7\%, limited by the modest coherence of our transmon. We also present calculations indicating that this technique could reduce cryostat heating for fast gates, a vital requirement for large-scale quantum computers.

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