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Interaction-Resilient Scalable Fluxonium Architecture with All-Microwave Gates

Quantum Physics 2025-12-25 v1

Abstract

Fluxonium qubits demonstrate exceptional potential for quantum processing; yet, realizing scalable architectures using them remains challenging. We propose a fluxonium-based square-grid design with fast 63\sim63~ns controlled-Z (CZ) gates, achieving coherent errors below 10410^{-4}, activated via microwave-driven transmon couplers. A central difficulty in such large-scale systems with all-microwave gates and, therefore, strong static couplings, is suppressing parasitic interactions that extend beyond nearest neighbors to include next-nearest elements. We address this issue by introducing several design strategies: the frequency allocation of both qubits and couplers, the localization of coupler wavefunctions, and a differential oscillator that suppresses residual long-range interactions. In addition, the architecture natively supports fast 70\sim70~ns CZZ gates -- three-qubit operations composed of two CZ gates sharing a common qubit -- which reduce the incoherent error by 35%\sim 35\% compared to performing the corresponding CZs sequentially. Together, these advances establish an interaction-resilient platform for large-scale fluxonium processors and can be adapted to a variety of fluxonium layouts.

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@article{arxiv.2512.21189,
  title  = {Interaction-Resilient Scalable Fluxonium Architecture with All-Microwave Gates},
  author = {Andrei A. Kugut and Grigoriy S. Mazhorin and Ilya A. Simakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21189},
  year   = {2025}
}