Tunable Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Coupler for Fluxonium Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16907v1
• Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 05:42:59 GMT
• Title: Tunable Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Coupler for Fluxonium Qubits
• Authors: Abhishek Chakraborty, Bibek Bhandari, D. Dominic Briseño-Colunga, Noah Stevenson, Zahra Pedramrazi, Chuan-Hong Liu, David I. Santiago, Irfan Siddiqi, Justin Dressel, Andrew N. Jordan,
• Abstract summary: Tunable couplers enable high-fidelity two-qubit gates leveraging high on/off coupling ratios and reduced crosstalk within a single design.<n>We present two schemes to implement two-qubit gates, predicting a $sqrtitextSWAP$-like gate with $99.9%$ open-system fidelity in less than 6 nanoseconds.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Tunable couplers enable high-fidelity two-qubit gates leveraging high on/off coupling ratios and reduced crosstalk within a single design. We investigate a galvanically connected direct-current superconducting quantum interference device (dc SQUID) as a minimal tunable coupling element for fluxonium qubits. Comparing grounded and floating fluxonium designs, we find that the latter contains an extra sloshing mode that strongly hybridizes with the qubit modes, leading to significant static ZZ crosstalk. In contrast, the grounded design avoids this issue and allows suppression of static ZZ crosstalk using a shunting capacitor. Leveraging fast flux control, we present two schemes to implement two-qubit gates, predicting a $\sqrt{i\text{SWAP}}$-like gate with $99.9\%$ open-system fidelity in less than 6 nanoseconds assuming modest relaxation and dephasing rates.

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