I am going to post here all newly submitted articles on the arXiv related to superconducting circuits. If your article has been accidentally forgotten, feel free to contact me
19
Apr
2022
Quantum bath engineering of a high impedance microwave mode through quasiparticle tunneling
We demonstrate a new approach to dissipation engineering in microwave quantum optics. For a single mode, dissipation usually corresponds to quantum jumps, where photons are lost one
by one. Here, we are able to tune the minimal number of lost photons per jump to be two (or more) with a simple dc voltage. As a consequence, different quantum states experience different dissipation. Causality implies that the states must also experience different energy shifts. Our measurements of these Lamb shifts are in good agreement with the predictions of the Kramers-Kronig relations for single quantum states in a regime of highly non-linear bath coupling. This work opens new possibilities for quantum state manipulation in circuit QED, without relying on the Josephson effect.
18
Apr
2022
Entanglement properties of superconducting qubits coupled to a semi-infinite transmission line
Quantum entanglement, a key resource in quantum information processing, is reduced by interaction between the quantum system concerned and its unavoidable noisy environment. Therefore
it is of particular importance to study the dynamical properties of entanglement in open quantum systems. In this work, we mainly focus on two qubits coupled to an adjustable environment, namely a semi-infinite transmission line. The two qubits‘ relaxations, through individual channels or collective channel or both, can be adjusted by the qubits‘ transition frequencies. We examine entanglement dynamics in this model system with initial Werner state, and show that the phenomena of entanglement sudden death and revival can be observed. Due to the hardness of preparing the Werner state experimentally, we introduce a new type of entangled state called pseudo-Werner state, which preserves as much entangling property as the Werner state, and more importantly, is experiment friendly. Furthermore, we provide detailed procedures for generating pseudo-Werner state and studying entanglement dynamics with it, which can be straightforwardly implemented in a superconducting waveguide quantum electrodynamics system.
17
Apr
2022
Extensible circuit-QED architecture via amplitude- and frequency-variable microwaves
We introduce a circuit-QED architecture combining fixed-frequency qubits and microwave-driven couplers. In the appropriate frame, the drive parameters appear as tunable knobs enabling
selective two-qubit coupling and coherent-error suppression. We moreover introduce a set of controlled-phase gates based on drive-amplitude and drive-frequency modulation. We develop a theoretical framework based on Floquet theory to model microwave-activated interactions with time-dependent drive parameters, which we also use for pulse shaping. We perform numerical simulations of the gate fidelity for realistic circuit parameters, and discuss the impact of drive-induced decoherence. We estimate average gate fidelities beyond 99.9% for all-microwave controlled-phase operations with gate times in the range 50−120ns. These two-qubit gates can operate over a large drive-frequency bandwidth and in a broad range of circuit parameters, thereby improving extensibility. We address the frequency allocation problem for this architecture using perturbation theory, demonstrating that qubit, coupler and drive frequencies can be chosen such that undesired static and driven interactions remain bounded in a multi-qubit device. Our numerical methods are useful for describing the time-evolution of driven systems in the adiabatic limit, and are applicable to a wide variety of circuit-QED setups.
15
Apr
2022
Distinguishing parity-switching mechanisms in a superconducting qubit
Single-charge tunneling is a decoherence mechanism affecting superconducting qubits, yet the origin of excess quasiparticle excitations (QPs) responsible for this tunneling in superconducting
devices is not fully understood. We measure the flux dependence of charge-parity (or simply, „parity“) switching in an offset-charge-sensitive transmon qubit to identify the contributions of photon-assisted parity switching and QP generation to the overall parity-switching rate. The parity-switching rate exhibits a qubit-state-dependent peak in the flux dependence, indicating a cold distribution of excess QPs which are predominantly trapped in the low-gap film of the device. Moreover, we find that the photon-assisted process contributes significantly to both parity switching and the generation of excess QPs by fitting to a model that self-consistently incorporates photon-assisted parity switching as well as inter-film QP dynamics.
14
Apr
2022
Simple coplanar waveguide resonator mask targeting metal-substrate interface
This white paper presents a single-layer mask, found at this https URL. It is designed for fabrication of superconducting microwave resonators towards 1:1 comparisons of dielectric
losses from the metal-substrate interface. Finite-element electromagnetic simulations are used to determine participation ratios of the four major regions of the on-chip devices, as well as to confirm lack of crosstalk between neighboring devices and demonstrate coupling tunability over three orders of magnitude. This mask is intended as an open-source community resource for facilitating precise and accurate comparisons of materials in the single-photon, millikelvin regime.
08
Apr
2022
Efficient scheme for realizing a multiplex-controlled phase gate with photonic qubits in circuit quantum electrodynamics
We propose an efficient scheme to implement a multiplex-controlled phase gate with multiple photonic qubits simultaneously controlling one target photonic qubit based on circuit quantum
electrodynamics (QED). For convenience, we denote this multiqubit gate as MCP gate. The gate is realized by using a two-level coupler to couple multiple cavities. The coupler here is a superconducting qubit. This scheme is simple because the gate implementation requires only \textit{one step} of operation. In addition, this scheme is quite general because the two logic states of each photonic qubit can be encoded with a vacuum state and an arbitrary non-vacuum state (e.g., a Fock state, a superposition of Fock states, a cat state, or a coherent state, etc.) which is orthogonal or quasi-orthogonal to the vacuum state. The scheme has some additional advantages: Because only two levels of the coupler are used, i.e., no auxiliary levels are utilized, decoherence from higher energy levels of the coupler is avoided; the gate operation time does not depend on the number of qubits; and the gate is implemented deterministically because no measurement is applied. As an example, we numerically analyze the circuit-QED based experimental feasibility of implementing a three-qubit MCP gate with photonic qubits each encoded via a vacuum state and a cat state. The scheme can be applied to accomplish the same task in a wide range of physical system, which consists of multiple microwave or optical cavities coupled to a two-level coupler such as a natural or artificial atom.
07
Apr
2022
Two-qubit gate using conditional driving for highly detuned Kerr-nonlinear parametric oscillators
A Kerr-nonlinear parametric oscillator (KPO) is one of the promising devices to realize qubits for universal quantum computing. The KPO can stabilize two coherent states with opposite
phases, yielding a quantum superposition called a Schrödinger cat state. Universal quantum computing with KPOs requires three kinds of quantum gates: Rz,Rx, and Rzz gates. We theoretically propose a two-qubit gate Rzz for highly detuned KPOs. In the proposed scheme, we add another two-photon drive for the first KPO. This leads to the Rzz gate based on the driving of the second KPO depending on the first-KPO state, which we call „conditional driving.“ First, we perform simulations using a conventional KPO Hamiltonian derived from a superconducting-circuit model under some approximations and evaluate the gate fidelity. Next, we also perform numerical simulations of the two-qubit gate using the superconducting-circuit model without the approximations. The simulation results indicate that two-qubit gates can be implemented with high fidelity (>99.9%) for rotation angles required for universality.
06
Apr
2022
Cancelling microwave crosstalk with fixed-frequency qubits
Scalable quantum information processing requires that modular gate operations can be executed in parallel. The presence of crosstalk decreases the individual addressability, causing
erroneous results during simultaneous operations. For superconducting qubits which operate in the microwave regime, electromagnetic isolation is often limited due to design constraints, leading to signal crosstalk that can deteriorate the quality of simultaneous gate operations. Here, we propose and demonstrate a method based on AC Stark effect for calibrating the microwave signal crosstalk. The method is suitable for processors based on fixed-frequency qubits which are known for high coherence and simple control. The optimal compensation parameters can be reliably identified from a well-defined interference pattern. We implement the method on an array of 7 superconducting qubits, and show its effectiveness in removing the majority of crosstalk errors.
Accelerated quantum adiabatic transfer in superconducting qubits
Quantum adiabatic transfer is widely used in quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, the transfer speed is limited by the quantum adiabatic approximation condition, which
hinders its application in quantum systems with a short decoherence time. Here we demonstrate quantum adiabatic state transfers that jump along geodesics in one-qubit and two-qubit superconducting transmons. This approach possesses the advantages of speed, robustness, and high fidelity compared with the usual adiabatic process. Our protocol provides feasible strategies for improving state manipulation and gate operation in superconducting quantum circuits.
Towards a controllable SQUID
Josephson junctions and superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID) are important electronic elements, which are based on normal conductor sandwiched between two superconductors.
These junctions are produced by evaporation techniques, and once they are embedded in an electronic circuit, their properties are fixed. Using SQUIDs as a tunable component requires the ability to generate Josephson junctions in situ in a reversible controllable manner. In this work we demonstrated how a normal (metallic) region along a line traversing a superconductor can be turned on and off externally thus potentially generating a controllable Josephson junction or a SQUID. The concept is based on a long, current-carrying excitation coil, piercing a ring shaped superconductor with nucleation points. The vector potential produced by this coil generates a circular current that destroys superconductivity along a radial line starting at the nucleation point. Unlike the destruction of superconductivity with magnetic field, the vector potential method is reversible and reproducible; full superconductivity is recovered upon removing the current from the coil and different cool-downs yield the same normal lines.