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Methods and Results for Quantum Optimal Pulse Control on Superconducting Qubit Systems

Quantum Physics 2022-09-05 v2

Abstract

The effective use of current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices is often limited by the noise which is caused by interaction with the environment and affects the fidelity of quantum gates. In transmon qubit systems, the quantum gate fidelity can be improved by applying control pulses that can minimize the effects of the environmental noise. In this work, we employ physics-guided quantum optimal control strategies to design optimal pulses driving quantum gates on superconducting qubit systems. We test our results by conducting experiments on the IBM Q hardware using their OpenPulse API. We compare the performance of our pulse-optimized quantum gates against the default quantum gates and show that the optimized pulses improve the fidelity of the quantum gates, in particular the single-qubit gates. We discuss the challenges we encountered in our work and point to possible future improvements.

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@article{arxiv.2202.03260,
  title  = {Methods and Results for Quantum Optimal Pulse Control on Superconducting Qubit Systems},
  author = {Elisha Siddiqui Matekole and Yao-Lung L. Fang and Meifeng Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.03260},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

updated to the accepted version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T09:24:17.841Z