High fidelity two-qubit gates exhibiting low crosstalk are essential building blocks for gate-based quantum information processing. In superconducting circuits two-qubit gates are typically based either on RF-controlled interactions or on the in-situ tunability of qubit frequencies. Here, we present an alternative approach using a tunable cross-Kerr-type ZZ-interaction between two qubits, which we realize by a flux-tunable coupler element. We control the ZZ-coupling rate over three orders of magnitude to perform a rapid (38 ns), high-contrast, low leakage (0.14 %) conditional-phase CZ gate with a fidelity of 97.9 % without relying on the resonant interaction with a non-computational state. Furthermore, by exploiting the direct nature of the ZZ-coupling, we easily access the entire conditional-phase gate family by adjusting only a single control parameter.
@article{arxiv.2005.08863,
title = {Implementation of Conditional-Phase Gates based on tunable ZZ-Interactions},
author = {Michele C. Collodo and Johannes Herrmann and Nathan Lacroix and Christian Kraglund Andersen and Ants Remm and Stefania Lazar and Jean-Claude Besse and Theo Walter and Andreas Wallraff and Christopher Eichler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08863},
year = {2021}
}