Fast Unconditional Reset and Leakage Reduction of a Tunable Superconducting Qubit via an Engineered Dissipative Bath

  1. Gihwan Kim,
  2. Andreas Butler,
  3. Vinicius S. Ferreira,
  4. Xueyue Zhang,
  5. Alex Hadley,
  6. Eunjong Kim,
  7. and Oskar Painter
Rapid and accurate initialization of qubits, reset, is a crucial building block for various tasks in quantum information processing, such as quantum error-correction and estimation
of statistics of noisy quantum devices with many qubits. We demonstrate unconditional reset of a frequency-tunable transmon qubit that simultaneously resets multiple excited states by utilizing a metamaterial waveguide engineered to provide a cold bath over a wide spectral range, while providing strong protection against Purcell decay of the qubit. We report reset error below 0.13% (0.16%) when prepared in the first (second) excited state of the transmon within 88ns. Additionally, through the sharp roll-off in the density of states of the metamaterial waveguide, we implement a leakage reduction unit that selectively resets the transmon’s second excited state to 0.285(3)% residual population within 44ns while acting trivially in the computational subspace as an identity operation that preserves encoded information with an infidelity of 0.72(1)%.