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 ∼50MHz frequencies and ∼5 GHz anharmonicities. The coupler enables the qubits to have a large tuning range of XX coupling strengths (−35 to 75 MHz). The ZZ coupling strength is <3kHz across the entire coupler bias range, and <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 gate in 258ns with fidelity 99.72%, and by driving at the sum frequency of the two qubits, we achieve a bSWAP gate in 102ns with fidelity 99.91%. This latter gate is only 5 qubit Larmor periods in length. We run cross-entropy benchmarking for over 20 consecutive hours and measure stable gate fidelities, with bSWAP drift (2σ) <0.02% and iSWAP drift <0.08%.
@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}
}