Verification of a resetting protocol for an uncontrolled superconducting qubit

  1. Ming Gong,
  2. Feihu Xu,
  3. Zheng-Da Li,
  4. Zizhu Wang,
  5. Yu-Zhe Zhang,
  6. Yulin Wu,
  7. Shaowei Li,
  8. Youwei Zhao,
  9. Shiyu Wang,
  10. Chen Zha,
  11. Hui Deng,
  12. Zhiguang Yan,
  13. Hao Rong,
  14. Futian Liang,
  15. Jin Lin,
  16. Yu Xu,
  17. Cheng Guo,
  18. Lihua Sun,
  19. Anthony D. Castellano,
  20. Chengzhi Peng,
  21. Yu-Ao Chen,
  22. Xiaobo Zhu,
  23. and Jian-Wei Pan
We experimentally verify the simplest non-trivial case of a quantum resetting protocol with five superconducting qubits, testing it with different types of free evolutions and target-probe
interactions. After post-selection, we obtained a reset state fidelity as high as 0.951, and the process fidelity was found to be 0.792. We also implemented 100 randomly-chosen interactions and demonstrated an average success probability of 0.323, experimentally confirmed the non-zeros probability of success for unknown interactions; the numerical simulated value is 0.384. We anticipate this protocol will have widespread applications in quantum information processing science, since it is able to combat any form of free evolution.