Diabatic gates for frequency-tunable superconducting qubits
quant-ph
/ Authors
R. Barends, C. M. Quintana, A. G. Petukhov, Yu Chen, D. Kafri, K. Kechedzhi, R. Collins, O. Naaman, S. Boixo, F. Arute
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K. Arya, D. Buell, B. Burkett, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, B. Foxen, A. Fowler, C. Gidney, M. Giustina, R. Graff, T. Huang, E. Jeffrey, J. Kelly, P. V. Klimov, F. Kostritsa, D. Landhuis, E. Lucero, M. McEwen, A. Megrant, X. Mi, J. Mutus, M. Neeley, C. Neill, E. Ostby
/ Abstract
We demonstrate diabatic two-qubit gates with Pauli error rates down to $4.3(2)\cdot 10^{-3}$ in as fast as 18 ns using frequency-tunable superconducting qubits. This is achieved by synchronizing the entangling parameters with minima in the leakage channel. The synchronization shows a landscape in gate parameter space that agrees with model predictions and facilitates robust tune-up. We test both iSWAP-like and CPHASE gates with cross-entropy benchmarking. The presented approach can be extended to multibody operations as well.