exploiting the large Hilbert space naturally available in harmonic oscillators. Superconducting architectures are particularly suitable to implement grid state qubits due to their fast and high-fidelity operations. Grid states in superconducting circuits enable quantum error correction (QEC) with performance beyond break-even. However, the state preparation and measurements (SPAM) errors of grid states has been a significant limitation to computational performances. In this work, we leverage high-performance QEC to enable repeat-until-success state preparation of both cardinal and magic states of the single-mode grid-state qubit. We combine this with an improved measurement protocol that corrects for both finite-energy envelope and auxiliary qubit readout errors, and increases robustness to photon loss. Our experiments, using both techniques, achieve a combined state-preparation and measurement error below 10−3. This represents two orders-of-magnitude improvement over the state of the art, bringing this platform on par with standard SPAM error levels measured in transmon qubits.
Quantum error correction of a grid-state qubit with state preparation and measurement errors below 10−3
Grid state qubits offer a hardware-efficient approach to large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing. They access the information redundancy required for quantum error correction by