High-fidelity controlled-Z gate with maximal intermediate leakage operating at the speed limit in a superconducting quantum processor
We introduce the sudden variant (SNZ) of the Net Zero scheme realizing controlled-Z (CZ) gates by baseband flux control of transmon frequency. SNZ CZ gates operate at the speed limit of transverse coupling between computational and non-computational states by maximizing intermediate leakage. The key advantage of SNZ is tuneup simplicity, owing to the regular structure of conditional phase and leakage as a function of two control parameters. We realize SNZ CZ gates in a multi-transmon processor, achieving 99.93±0.24% fidelity and 0.10±0.02% leakage. SNZ is compatible with scalable schemes for quantum error correction and adaptable to generalized conditional-phase gates useful in intermediate-scale applications.