Mitigating crosstalk errors for simultaneous single-qubit gates on a superconducting quantum processor

  1. Jaap J. Wesdorp,
  2. Eric Hyyppä,
  3. Joona Andersson,
  4. Janos Adam,
  5. Rohit Beriwal,
  6. Ville Bergholm,
  7. Saga Dahl,
  8. Simone Diego Fasciati,
  9. Alejandro Gomez Friero,
  10. Zheming Gao,
  11. Daria Gusenkova,
  12. Andrew Guthrie,
  13. Johannes Heinsoo,
  14. Tuukka Hiltunen,
  15. Keiran Holland,
  16. Amin Hosseinkhani,
  17. Sinan Inel,
  18. Joni Ikonen,
  19. Shan W. Jolin,
  20. Kristinn Juliusson,
  21. Seung-Goo Kim,
  22. Anton Komlev,
  23. Roope Kokkoniemi,
  24. Otto Koskinen,
  25. Joonas Kylmälä,
  26. Alessandro Landra,
  27. Julia Lamprich,
  28. Magdalena Lehmuskoski,
  29. Nizar Lethif,
  30. Per Liebermann,
  31. Tianyi Li,
  32. Aleksi Lintunen,
  33. Fabian Marxer,
  34. Kunal Mitra,
  35. Jakub Mrożek,
  36. Lucas Ortega,
  37. Miha Papič,
  38. Matti Partanen,
  39. Alexander Plyushch,
  40. Stefan Pogorzalek,
  41. Michael Renger,
  42. Jussi Ritvas,
  43. Sampo Saarinen,
  44. Indrajeet Sagar,
  45. Matthew Sarsby,
  46. Mykhailo Savytskyi,
  47. Ville Selinmaa,
  48. Ivan Takmakov,
  49. Brian Tarasinski,
  50. Francesca Tosto,
  51. David Vasey,
  52. Panu Vesanen,
  53. Jeroen Verjauw,
  54. Alpo Välimaa,
  55. Nicola Wurz,
  56. Hsiang-Sheng Ku,
  57. Frank Deppe,
  58. Juha Hassel,
  59. Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi,
  60. Wei Liu,
  61. Jani Tuorila,
  62. Chun Fai Chan,
  63. Attila Geresdi,
  64. and Antti Vepsäläinen
Single-qubit gates on superconducting quantum processors are typically implemented using microwave pulses applied through dedicated control lines. However, these microwave pulses may
also drive other qubits due to crosstalk arising from capacitive coupling and wavefunction overlap in systems with closely spaced transition frequencies. Crosstalk and frequency crowding increase errors during simultaneous single-qubit operations relative to isolated gates, thus forming a major bottleneck for scaling superconducting quantum processors. In this work, we combine model-based qubit frequency optimization with pulse shaping to demonstrate crosstalk error mitigation in single-qubit gates on a 49-qubit superconducting quantum processor. We introduce and experimentally verify an analytical model of simultaneous single-qubit gate error caused by microwave crosstalk that depends on a given pulse shape. By employing a model-based optimization strategy of qubit frequencies, we minimize the crosstalk-induced error across the processor and achieve a mean simultaneous single-qubit gate fidelity of 99.96% for a 16-ns gate duration, approaching the mean individual gate fidelity. To further reduce the simultaneous error and required qubit frequency bandwidth on high-crosstalk qubit pairs, we introduce a crosstalk transition suppression (CTS) pulse shaping technique that minimizes the spectral energy around transitions inducing leakage and crosstalk errors. Finally, we combine CTS with model-based frequency optimization across the device and experimentally show a systematic reduction in the required qubit frequency bandwidth for high-fidelity simultaneous gates, supported by simulations of systems with up to 1000 qubits. By alleviating constraints on qubit frequency bandwidth for parallel single-qubit operations, this work represents an important step for scaling towards larger quantum processors.

Broadband Tunable Phase Shifter For Microwaves

  1. Jinli Zhang,
  2. Tianyi Li,
  3. Roope Kokkoniemi,
  4. Chengyu Yan,
  5. Wei Liu,
  6. Matti Partanen,
  7. Kuan Yen Tan,
  8. Ming He,
  9. Lu Ji,
  10. Leif Grönberg,
  11. and Mikko Möttönen
We implement a broadly tunable phase shifter for microwaves based on superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) and study it both experimentally and theoretically. At different
frequencies, a unit transmission coefficient, |S21|=1, can be theoretically achieved along a curve where the phase shift is controllable by magnetic flux. The fabricated device consists of three equidistant SQUIDs interrupting a transmission line. We model each SQUID embedded at different positions along the transmission line with two parameters, capacitance and inductance, the values of which we extract from the experiments. In our experiments, the tunability of the phase shift varies from from 0.07×π to 0.14×π radians along the full-transmission curve with the input frequency ranging from 6.00 to 6.28~GHz. The reported measurements are in good agreement with simulations, which is promising for future design work of phase shifters for different applications.

Quantum Gates for Propagating Microwave Photons

  1. Roope Kokkoniemi,
  2. Tuomas Ollikainen,
  3. Russell E. Lake,
  4. Sakari Saarenpää,
  5. Kuan Yen Tan,
  6. Janne I. Kokkala,
  7. Ceren B. Dağ,
  8. Joonas Govenius,
  9. and Mikko Möttönen
We report a generic scheme to implement transmission-type quantum gates for propagating microwave photons, based on a sequence of lumped-element components on transmission lines. By
choosing three equidistant superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) as the components on a single transmission line, we experimentally implement a magnetic-flux-tunable phase shifter and demonstrate that it produces a broad range of phase shifts and full transmission within the experimental uncertainty. Together with previously demonstrated beam splitters, these phase shifters can be utilized to implement arbitrary single-qubit gates. Furthermore, we theoretically show that replacing the SQUIDs by superconducting qubits, the phase shifter can be made strongly nonlinear, thus introducing deterministic photon–photon interactions. These results critically complement the previous demonstrations of on-demand single-photon sources and detectors, and hence pave the way for an all-microwave quantum computer based on propagating photons.