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Tunable inductive coupler for high fidelity gates between fluxonium qubits

Quantum Physics 2023-09-27 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The fluxonium qubit is a promising candidate for quantum computation due to its long coherence times and large anharmonicity. We present a tunable coupler that realizes strong inductive coupling between two heavy-fluxonium qubits, each with 50\sim50MHz frequencies and 5\sim5 GHz anharmonicities. The coupler enables the qubits to have a large tuning range of XX\textit{XX} coupling strengths (35-35 to 7575 MHz). The ZZ\textit{ZZ} coupling strength is <3<3kHz across the entire coupler bias range, and <100<100Hz at the coupler off-position. These qualities lead to fast, high-fidelity single- and two-qubit gates. By driving at the difference frequency of the two qubits, we realize a iSWAP\sqrt{i\mathrm{SWAP}} gate in 258258ns with fidelity 99.72%99.72\%, and by driving at the sum frequency of the two qubits, we achieve a bSWAP\sqrt{b\mathrm{SWAP}} gate in 102102ns with fidelity 99.91%99.91\%. This latter gate is only 5 qubit Larmor periods in length. We run cross-entropy benchmarking for over 2020 consecutive hours and measure stable gate fidelities, with bSWAP\sqrt{b\mathrm{SWAP}} drift (2σ2 \sigma) <0.02%< 0.02\% and iSWAP\sqrt{i\mathrm{SWAP}} drift <0.08%< 0.08\%.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05720,
  title  = {Tunable inductive coupler for high fidelity gates between fluxonium qubits},
  author = {Helin Zhang and Chunyang Ding and D. K. Weiss and Ziwen Huang and Yuwei Ma and Charles Guinn and Sara Sussman and Sai Pavan Chitta and Danyang Chen and Andrew A. Houck and Jens Koch and David I. Schuster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05720},
  year   = {2023}
}

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16 pages, 14 figures

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