Ivan Tsitsilin

Single Shot i-Toffoli Gate in Dispersively Coupled Superconducting Qubits

  1. Aneirin J. Baker,
  2. Gerhard B. P. Huber,
  3. Niklas J. Glaser,
  4. Federico Roy,
  5. Ivan Tsitsilin,
  6. Stefan Filipp,
  7. and Michael J. Hartmann
Quantum algorithms often benefit from the ability to execute multi-qubit (>2) gates. To date such multi-qubit gates are typically decomposed into single- and two-qubit gates, particularly
in superconducting qubit architectures. The ability to perform multi-qubit operations in a single step could vastly improve the fidelity and execution time of many algorithms. Here, we propose a single shot method for executing an i-Toffoli gate, a three-qubit gate gate with two control and one target qubit, using currently existing superconducting hardware. We show numerical evidence for a process fidelity over 98% and a gate time of 500 ns for superconducting qubits interacting via tunable couplers. Our method can straight forwardly be extended to implement gates with more than two control qubits at similar fidelities.
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Topological photon pairs in a superconducting quantum metamaterial

  1. Ilya S. Besedin,
  2. Maxim A. Gorlach,
  3. Nikolay N. Abramov,
  4. Ivan Tsitsilin,
  5. Ilya N. Moskalenko,
  6. Alina A. Dobronosova,
  7. Dmitry O. Moskalev,
  8. Alexey R. Matanin,
  9. Nikita S. Smirnov,
  10. Ilya A. Rodionov,
  11. Alexander N. Poddubny,
  12. and Alexey V. Ustinov
Recent discoveries in topological physics hold a promise for disorder-robust quantum systems and technologies. Topological states provide the crucial ingredient of such systems featuring
increased robustness to disorder and imperfections. Here, we use an array of superconducting qubits to engineer a one-dimensional topologically nontrivial quantum metamaterial. By performing microwave spectroscopy of the fabricated array, we experimentally observe the spectrum of elementary excitations. We find not only the single-photon topological states but also the bands of exotic bound photon pairs arising due to the inherent anharmonicity of qubits. Furthermore, we detect the signatures of the two-photon bound edge-localized state which hints towards interaction-induced localization in our system. Our work demonstrates an experimental implementation of the topological model with attractive photon-photon interaction in a quantum metamaterial.
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