The QICK is a standalone open source qubit controller that was first introduced in 2022. In this follow-up work, we present recent experimental use cases that the QICK uniquely enabled for superconducting qubit systems. These include multiplexed signal generation and readout, mixer-free readout, pre-distorted fast flux pulses, and phase-coherent pulses for parametric operations, including high-fidelity parametric entangling gates. We explain in detail how the QICK was used to enable these experiments.
@article{arxiv.2311.17171,
title = {Experimental advances with the QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit) for superconducting quantum hardware},
author = {Chunyang Ding and Martin Di Federico and Michael Hatridge and Andrew Houck and Sebastien Leger and Jeronimo Martinez and Connie Miao and David I. Schuster and Leandro Stefanazzi and Chris Stoughton and Sara Sussman and Ken Treptow and Sho Uemura and Neal Wilcer and Helin Zhang and Chao Zhou and Gustavo Cancelo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17171},
year = {2025}
}