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Ultracoherent superconducting cavity-based multiqudit platform with error-resilient control

Quantum Physics 2026-01-01 v3

Abstract

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities offer a promising platform for quantum computing due to their long coherence times, yet integrating nonlinear elements like transmons for control often introduces additional loss. We report a multimode quantum system based on a 2-cell elliptical shaped SRF cavity, comprising two cavity modes weakly coupled to an ancillary transmon circuit, designed to preserve coherence while enabling efficient control of the cavity modes. We mitigate the detrimental effects of the transmon decoherence through careful design optimization that reduces transmon-cavity couplings and participation in the dielectric substrate and lossy interfaces, to achieve single-photon lifetimes of 20.6 ms and 15.6 ms for the two modes, and a pure dephasing time exceeding 40 ms. This marks an order-of-magnitude improvement over prior 3D multimode memories. Leveraging sideband interactions and novel error-resilient protocols, including measurement-based correction and post-selection, we achieve high-fidelity control over quantum states. This enables the preparation of Fock states up to N=20N = 20 with fidelities exceeding 95%, the highest reported to date to the authors' knowledge, as well as two-mode entanglement with an estimated coherence-limited fidelities of 99.9% after post-selection. These results establish our platform as a robust foundation for quantum information processing, allowing for future extensions to high-dimensional qudit encodings.

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@article{arxiv.2506.03286,
  title  = {Ultracoherent superconducting cavity-based multiqudit platform with error-resilient control},
  author = {Taeyoon Kim and Tanay Roy and Xinyuan You and Andy C. Y. Li and Henry Lamm and Oleg Pronitchev and Mustafa Bal and Sabrina Garattoni and Francesco Crisa and Daniel Bafia and Doga Kurkcuoglu and Roman Pilipenko and Paul Heidler and Nicholas Bornman and David van Zanten and Silvia Zorzetti and Roni Harnik and Akshay Murthy and Andrei Lunin and Sergey Belomestnykh and Shaojiang Zhu and Changqing Wang and Andre Vallieres and Ziwen Huang and Jens Koch and Anna Grassellino and Srivatsan Chakram and Alexander Romanenko and Yao Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03286},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages with 3 main figures and 13 supplementary figures

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