Published May 2, 2024 | Version v1
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Tunable Inductive Coupler for High-Fidelity Gates Between Fluxonium Qubits

  • 1. University of Chicago
  • 2. Northwestern University
  • 3. University of Science and Technology of China
  • 4. Princeton University

Description

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 approximately $50$-MHz frequencies and approximately $5$-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 < 3 kHz across the entire coupler bias range and < 100 Hz 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 $\sqrt{iSWAP}$ gate in 258 ns with fidelity 99.72%, and by driving at the sum frequency of the two qubits, we achieve a $\sqrt{bSWAP}$ gate in 102 ns with fidelity 99.91%. This latter gate is only five qubit Larmor periods in length. We run cross-entropy benchmarking for over 20 consecutive hours and measure stable gate fidelities, with $\sqrt{bSWAP}$ drift ($2σ$) < $0.02%$ and $\sqrt{iSWAP}$ drift < $0.08%$.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PRXQuantum.5.020326
Other
oai:uchicago.tind.io:11764

Funding

Army Research Office
W911NF1910016
National Science Foundation
CCF1730449
National Science Foundation
DMR-1420709
National Science Foundation
ECCS-1542205
Department of Defense
National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program

UChicago Information

Division(s)
Physical Sciences Division, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Department(s)
Physics
Center(s) or Institute(s)
James Franck Institute