Unified Flux Control Architecture for Fluxonium Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25948v2
• Date: Fri, 29 May 2026 00:44:19 GMT
• Title: Unified Flux Control Architecture for Fluxonium Qubits
• Abstract summary: We experimentally realize a unified control architecture for fluxonium qubits, in which both transverse ($XY$) and longitudinal ($Z$) operations are implemented through a single flux-control channel.<n>This architecture imposes competing requirements on the shared control channel, which must simultaneously support low-frequency flux transmission for reset operations.<n>We address this challenge through frequency-selective cryogenic filtering together with compensated waveform synthesis that corrects the pulse distortion introduced by the filtered control line.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Control architectures that reduce hardware overhead while maintaining high-fidelity operations are essential for the continued scaling of superconducting quantum processors. Here we experimentally realize a unified control architecture for fluxonium qubits, in which both transverse ($XY$) and longitudinal ($Z$) operations are implemented through a single flux-control channel driven by a single arbitrary waveform generator channel. This architecture imposes competing requirements on the shared control channel, which must simultaneously support low-frequency flux transmission for reset operations while strongly attenuating broadband noise near the qubit transition frequency. We address this challenge through frequency-selective cryogenic filtering together with compensated waveform synthesis that corrects the pulse distortion introduced by the filtered control line. Experimentally, this approach preserves coherence times above 100 $μ$s while enabling active reset with approximately 98% fidelity and 20-ns single-qubit gates with fidelities exceeding 99.99%. We further demonstrate FPGA-native instruction-level waveform synthesis based on reusable pulse primitives for unified flux control. These results establish unified flux control as a scalable architecture for fluxonium qubits that reduces control hardware overhead while preserving high-fidelity operation.

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