Characterizing Noise in Controlling Superconducting Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18482v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:34:36 GMT
• Title: Characterizing Noise in Controlling Superconducting Qubits
• Authors: Yuanzheng Paul Tan, Yung Szen Yap, Long Hoang Nguyen, Rangga P. Budoyo, Patrick Bore, Kun Hee Park, Christoph Hufnagel, Rainer Dumke,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the effects of noise when applied to superconducting qubit control pulses to observe the dependency of the gate fidelity with the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)<n>We propose a model on how the noise of the control electronics interacts with the qubit system and demonstrate a method for characterizing the noise environment of the qubit control.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Meaningful quantum computing is currently bottlenecked by the error rates of current generation Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. To improve the fidelity of the quantum logic gates, it is essential to recognize the contributions of various sources of errors, including background noise. In this work, we investigate the effects of noise when applied to superconducting qubit control pulses to observe the dependency of the gate fidelity with the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We propose a model on how the noise of the control electronics interacts with the qubit system and demonstrate a method for characterizing the noise environment of the qubit control.

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