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Charting the circuit QED design landscape using optimal control theory

Quantum Physics 2017-09-21 v4

Abstract

With recent improvements in coherence times, superconducting transmon qubits have become a promising platform for quantum computing. They can be flexibly engineered over a wide range of parameters, but also require us to identify an efficient operating regime. Using state-of-the-art quantum optimal control techniques, we exhaustively explore the landscape for creation and removal of entanglement over a wide range of design parameters. We identify an optimal operating region outside of the usually considered strongly dispersive regime, where multiple sources of entanglement interfere simultaneously, which we name the quasi-dispersive straddling qutrits (QuaDiSQ) regime. At a chosen point in this region, a universal gate set is realized by applying microwave fields for gate durations of 50 ns, with errors approaching the limit of intrinsic transmon coherence. Our systematic quantum optimal control approach is easily adapted to explore the parameter landscape of other quantum technology platforms.

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@article{arxiv.1606.08825,
  title  = {Charting the circuit QED design landscape using optimal control theory},
  author = {Michael H. Goerz and Felix Motzoi and K. Birgitta Whaley and Christiane P. Koch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.08825},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures, 2 pages supplementary, 1 supplementary figure

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