Low-loss interconnects for modular superconducting quantum processors

  1. Jingjing Niu,
  2. Libo Zhang,
  3. Yang Liu,
  4. Jiawei Qiu,
  5. Wenhui Huang,
  6. Jiaxiang Huang,
  7. Hao Jia,
  8. Jiawei Liu,
  9. Ziyu Tao,
  10. Weiwei Wei,
  11. Yuxuan Zhou,
  12. Wanjing Zou,
  13. Yuanzhen Chen,
  14. Xiaowei Deng,
  15. Xiuhao Deng,
  16. Changkang Hu,
  17. Ling Hu,
  18. Jian Li,
  19. Dian Tan,
  20. Yuan Xu,
  21. Fei Yan,
  22. Tongxing Yan,
  23. Song Liu,
  24. Youpeng Zhong,
  25. Andrew N. Cleland,
  26. and Dapeng Yu
Scaling is now a key challenge in superconducting quantum computing. One solution is to build modular systems in which smaller-scale quantum modules are individually constructed and
calibrated, and then assembled into a larger architecture. This, however, requires the development of suitable interconnects. Here, we report low-loss interconnects based on pure aluminium coaxial cables and on-chip impedance transformers featuring quality factors up to 8.1×105, which is comparable to the performance of our transmon qubits fabricated on single-crystal sapphire substrate. We use these interconnects to link five quantum modules with inter-module quantum state transfer and Bell state fidelities up to 99\%. To benchmark the overall performance of the processor, we create maximally-entangled, multi-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. The generated inter-module four-qubit GHZ state exhibits 92.0\% fidelity. We also entangle up to 12 qubits in a GHZ state with 55.8±1.8% fidelity, which is above the genuine multipartite entanglement threshold of 1/2. These results represent a viable modular approach for large-scale superconducting quantum processors.

Conditional coherent control with superconducting artificial atoms

  1. Chang-Kang Hu,
  2. Jiahao Yuan,
  3. Bruno A. Veloso,
  4. Jiawei Qiu,
  5. Yuxuan Zhou,
  6. Libo Zhang,
  7. Ji Chu,
  8. Orkesh Nurbolat,
  9. Ling Hu,
  10. Jian Li,
  11. Yuan Xu,
  12. Youpeng Zhong,
  13. Song Liu,
  14. Fei Yan,
  15. Dian Tan,
  16. R. Bachelard,
  17. Alan C. Santos,
  18. C. J. Villas-Boas,
  19. and Dapeng Yu
Controlling the flow of quantum information is a fundamental task for quantum computers, which is unpractical to realize on classical devices. Coherent devices which can process quantum
states are thus required to route the quantum states yielding the information. In this paper we demonstrate experimentally the smallest quantum transistor for superconducting processors, composed of collector and emitter qubits, and the coupler. The interaction strength between the collector and emitter is controlled by tuning the frequency and the state of the gate qubit, effectively implementing a quantum switch. From the truth-table measurement (open-gate fidelity 93.38%, closed-gate fidelity 98.77%), we verify the high performance of the quantum transistor. We also show that taking into account the third energy level of the qubits is critical to achieving a high-fidelity transistor. The presented device has a strong potential for quantum information processes in superconducting platforms.

Scalable method for eliminating residual ZZ interaction between superconducting qubits

  1. Zhongchu Ni,
  2. Sai Li,
  3. Libo Zhang,
  4. Ji Chu,
  5. Jingjing Niu,
  6. Tongxing Yan,
  7. Xiuhao Deng,
  8. Ling Hu,
  9. Jian Li,
  10. Youpeng Zhong,
  11. Song Liu,
  12. Fei Yan,
  13. Yuan Xu,
  14. and Dapeng Yu
Unwanted ZZ interaction is a quantum-mechanical crosstalk phenomenon which correlates qubit dynamics and is ubiquitous in superconducting qubit system. It adversely affects the quality
of quantum operations and can be detrimental in scalable quantum information processing. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a practically extensible approach for complete cancellation of residual ZZ interaction between fixed-frequency transmon qubits, which are known for long coherence and simple control. We apply to the intermediate coupler that connects the qubits a weak microwave drive at a properly chosen frequency in order to noninvasively induce ac Stark shift for ZZ cancellation. We verify the cancellation performance by measuring vanishing two-qubit entangling phases and ZZ correlations. In addition, we implement randomized benchmarking experiment to extract the idling gate fidelity which shows good agreement with the coherence limit, demonstrating the effectiveness of ZZ cancellation. Our method allows independent addressability of each qubit-qubit connection, and is applicable to both non-tunable and tunable coupler, promising better compatibility with future large-scale quantum processors.

Optimal charging of a superconducting quantum battery

  1. Chang-Kang Hu,
  2. Jiawei Qiu,
  3. Paulo J. P. Souza,
  4. Jiahao Yuan,
  5. Yuxuan Zhou,
  6. Libo Zhang,
  7. Ji Chu,
  8. Xianchuang Pan,
  9. Ling Hu,
  10. Jian Li,
  11. Yuan Xu,
  12. Youpeng Zhong,
  13. Song Liu,
  14. Fei Yan,
  15. Dian Tan,
  16. R. Bachelard,
  17. C. J. Villas-Boas,
  18. Alan C. Santos,
  19. and Dapeng Yu
Quantum batteries are miniature energy storage devices and play a very important role in quantum thermodynamics. In recent years, quantum batteries have been extensively studied, but
limited in theoretical level. Here we report the experimental realization of a quantum battery based on superconducting qubits. Our model explores dark and bright states to achieve stable and powerful charging processes, respectively. Our scheme makes use of the quantum adiabatic brachistochrone, which allows us to speed up the {battery ergotropy injection. Due to the inherent interaction of the system with its surrounding, the battery exhibits a self-discharge, which is shown to be described by a supercapacitor-like self-discharging mechanism. Our results paves the way for proposals of new superconducting circuits able to store extractable work for further usage.

Realization of Super-Robust Geometric Control in a Superconducting Circuit

  1. Sai Li,
  2. Bao-Jie Liu,
  3. Zhongchu Ni,
  4. Libo Zhang,
  5. Zheng-Yuan Xue,
  6. Jian Li,
  7. Fei Yan,
  8. Yuanzhen Chen,
  9. Song Liu,
  10. Man-Hong Yung,
  11. Yuan Xu,
  12. and Dapeng Yu
Geometric phases accompanying adiabatic quantum evolutions can be used to construct robust quantum control for quantum information processing due to their noise-resilient feature. A
significant development along this line is to construct geometric gates using nonadiabatic quantum evolutions to reduce errors due to decoherence. However, it has been shown that nonadiabatic geometric gates are not necessarily more robust than dynamical ones, in contrast to an intuitive expectation. Here we experimentally investigate this issue for the case of nonadiabatic holonomic quantum computation~(NHQC) and show that conventional NHQC schemes cannot guarantee the expected robustness due to a cross coupling to the states outside the computational space. We implement a new set of constraints for gate construction in order to suppress such cross coupling to achieve an enhanced robustness. Using a superconducting quantum circuit, we demonstrate high-fidelity holonomic gates whose infidelity against quasi-static transverse errors can be suppressed up to the fourth order, instead of the second order in conventional NHQC and dynamical gates. In addition, we explicitly measure the accumulated dynamical phase due to the above mentioned cross coupling and verify that it is indeed much reduced in our NHQC scheme. We further demonstrate a protocol for constructing two-qubit NHQC gates also with an enhanced robustness.

Suppressing Coherent Two-Qubit Errors via Dynamical Decoupling

  1. Jiawei Qiu,
  2. Yuxuan Zhou,
  3. Chang-Kang Hu,
  4. Jiahao Yuan,
  5. Libo Zhang,
  6. Ji Chu,
  7. Wenhui Huang,
  8. Weiyang Liu,
  9. Kai Luo,
  10. Zhongchu Ni,
  11. Xianchuang Pan,
  12. Zhixuan Yang,
  13. Yimeng Zhang,
  14. Yuanzhen Chen,
  15. Xiu-Hao Deng,
  16. Ling Hu,
  17. Jian Li,
  18. Jingjing Niu,
  19. Yuan Xu,
  20. Tongxing Yan,
  21. Youpeng Zhong,
  22. Song Liu,
  23. Fei Yan,
  24. and Dapeng Yu
Scalable quantum information processing requires the ability to tune multi-qubit interactions. This makes the precise manipulation of quantum states particularly difficult for multi-qubit
interactions because tunability unavoidably introduces sensitivity to fluctuations in the tuned parameters, leading to erroneous multi-qubit gate operations. The performance of quantum algorithms may be severely compromised by coherent multi-qubit errors. It is therefore imperative to understand how these fluctuations affect multi-qubit interactions and, more importantly, to mitigate their influence. In this study, we demonstrate how to implement dynamical-decoupling techniques to suppress the two-qubit analogue of the dephasing on a superconducting quantum device featuring a compact tunable coupler, a trending technology that enables the fast manipulation of qubit–qubit interactions. The pure-dephasing time shows an up to ~14 times enhancement on average when using robust sequences. The results are in good agreement with the noise generated from room-temperature circuits. Our study further reveals the decohering processes associated with tunable couplers and establishes a framework to develop gates and sequences robust against two-qubit errors.

Phase sensitive Landau-Zener-Stückelberg interference in superconducting quantum circuit

  1. Zhi-Xuan Yang,
  2. Yi-Meng Zhang,
  3. Yu-Xuan Zhou,
  4. Li-Bo Zhang,
  5. Fei Yan,
  6. Song Liu,
  7. Yuan Xu,
  8. and Jian Li
Superconducting circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) architecture composed of superconducting qubit and resonator is a powerful platform for exploring quantum physics and quantum information
processing. By employing techniques developed for superconducting quantum computing, we experimentally investigate phase-sensitive Landau-Zener-Stückelberg (LZS) interference phenomena in a circuit QED. Our experiments cover a large range of LZS transition parameters, and demonstrate the LZS induced Rabi-like oscillation as well as phase-dependent steady-state population.

High-fidelity, high-scalability two-qubit gate scheme for superconducting qubits

  1. Yuan Xu,
  2. Ji Chu,
  3. Jiahao Yuan,
  4. Jiawei Qiu,
  5. Yuxuan Zhou,
  6. Libo Zhang,
  7. Xinsheng Tan,
  8. Yang Yu,
  9. Song Liu,
  10. Jian Li,
  11. Fei Yan,
  12. and Dapeng Yu
High-quality two-qubit gate operations are crucial for scalable quantum information processing. Often, the gate fidelity is compromised when the system becomes more integrated. Therefore,
a low-error-rate, easy-to-scale two-qubit gate scheme is highly desirable. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a new two-qubit gate scheme that exploits fixed-frequency qubits and a tunable coupler in a superconducting quantum circuit. The scheme requires less control lines, reduces crosstalk effect, simplifies calibration procedures, yet produces a controlled-Z gate in 30ns with a high fidelity of 99.5%. Error analysis shows that gate errors are mostly coherence-limited. Our demonstration paves the way for large-scale implementation of high-fidelity quantum operations.

Experimental implementation of universal nonadiabatic geometric quantum gates in a superconducting circuit

  1. Yuan Xu,
  2. Ziyue Hua,
  3. Tao Chen,
  4. Xiaoxuan Pan,
  5. Xuegang Li,
  6. Jiaxiu Han,
  7. Weizhou Cai,
  8. Yuwei Ma,
  9. Haiyan Wang,
  10. Yipu Song,
  11. Zheng-Yuan Xue,
  12. and Luyan Sun
Using geometric phases to realize noise-resilient quantum computing is an important method to enhance the control fidelity. In this work, we experimentally realize a universal nonadiabatic
geometric quantum gate set in a superconducting qubit chain. We characterize the realized single- and two-qubit geometric gates with both quantum process tomography and randomized benchmarking methods. The measured average fidelities for the single-qubit rotation gates and two-qubit controlled-Z gate are 0.9977 and 0.977, respectively. Besides, we also experimentally demonstrate the noise-resilient feature of the realized single-qubit geometric gates by comparing their performance with the conventional dynamic gates with different types of errors in the control field. Thus, our experiment proves a way to achieve high-fidelity geometric quantum gates for robust quantum computation.

Observation of topological magnon insulator states in a superconducting circuit

  1. Weizhou Cai,
  2. Jiaxiu Han,
  3. Feng Mei,
  4. Yuan Xu,
  5. Yuwei Ma,
  6. Xuegang Li,
  7. Haiyan Wang,
  8. Yipu Song,
  9. Zheng-Yuan Xue,
  10. Zhang-qi Yin,
  11. Suotang Jia,
  12. and Luyan Sun
Searching topological states of matter in tunable artificial systems has recently become a rapidly growing field of research. Meanwhile, significant experimental progresses on observing
topological phenomena have been made in superconducting circuits. However, topological insulator states have not yet been reported in this system. Here, for the first time, we experimentally realize a spin version of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and observe the topological magnon insulator states in a superconducting qubit chain, which manifest both topological invariants and topological edge states. Based on simply monitoring the time evolution of a singlequbit excitation in the chain, we demonstrate that the topological winding numbers and the topological magnon edge and soliton states can all be directly observed. Our work thus opens a new avenue to use controllable qubit chain system to explore novel topological states of matter and also offers exciting possibilities for topologically protected quantum information processing.