High-fidelity controlled-Z gate with maximal intermediate leakage operating at the speed limit in a superconducting quantum processor

  1. V. Negîrneac,
  2. H. Ali,
  3. N. Muthusubramanian,
  4. F. Battistel,
  5. R. Sagastizabal,
  6. M. S. Moreira,
  7. J. F. Marques,
  8. W. Vlothuizen,
  9. M. Beekman,
  10. N. Haider,
  11. A. Bruno,
  12. and L. DiCarlo
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.

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