Offset Charge Dependence of Measurement-Induced Transitions in Transmons

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00674v1
• Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 17:28:57 GMT
• Title: Offset Charge Dependence of Measurement-Induced Transitions in Transmons
• Authors: Mathieu Féchant, Marie Frédérique Dumas, Denis Bénâtre, Nicolas Gosling, Philipp Lenhard, Martin Spiecker, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Benjamin D'Anjou, Alexandre Blais, Ioan M. Pop,
• Abstract summary: A major limitation in improving qubit readout is measurement-induced transitions.<n>We experimentally confirm a prediction by characterizing measurement-induced transitions with increasing resonator photon population.<n>Because highly excited states are involved, achieving quantitative agreement between theory and experiment requires accounting for higher-order harmonics.
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• Abstract: A key challenge in achieving scalable fault tolerance in superconducting quantum processors is readout fidelity, which lags behind one- and two-qubit gate fidelity. A major limitation in improving qubit readout is measurement-induced transitions, also referred to as qubit ionization, caused by multiphoton qubit-resonator excitation occurring at specific photon numbers. Since ionization can involve highly excited states, it has been predicted that in transmons -- the most widely used superconducting qubit -- the photon number at which measurement-induced transitions occur is gate charge dependent. This dependence is expected to persist deep in the transmon regime where the qubit frequency is gate charge insensitive. We experimentally confirm this prediction by characterizing measurement-induced transitions with increasing resonator photon population while actively stabilizing the transmon's gate charge. Furthermore, because highly excited states are involved, achieving quantitative agreement between theory and experiment requires accounting for higher-order harmonics in the transmon Hamiltonian.

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