Mitigation of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors

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Autores principales: Osman, Amr, Fernàndez-Pendàs, Jorge, Warren, Christopher, Kosen, Sandoko, Scigliuzzo, Marco, Kockum, Anton Frisk, Tancredi, Giovanna, Roudsari, Anita Fadavi, Bylander, Jonas
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author Osman, Amr
Fernàndez-Pendàs, Jorge
Warren, Christopher
Kosen, Sandoko
Scigliuzzo, Marco
Kockum, Anton Frisk
Tancredi, Giovanna
Roudsari, Anita Fadavi
Bylander, Jonas
author_facet Osman, Amr
Fernàndez-Pendàs, Jorge
Warren, Christopher
Kosen, Sandoko
Scigliuzzo, Marco
Kockum, Anton Frisk
Tancredi, Giovanna
Roudsari, Anita Fadavi
Bylander, Jonas
contents The reproducibility of qubit parameters is a challenge for scaling up superconducting quantum processors. Signal crosstalk imposes constraints on the frequency separation between neighboring qubits. The frequency uncertainty of transmon qubits arising from the fabrication process is attributed to deviations in the Josephson junction area, tunnel barrier thickness, and the qubit capacitor. We decrease the sensitivity to these variations by fabricating larger Josephson junctions and reduce the wafer-level standard deviation in resistance down to 2%. We characterize 32 identical transmon qubits and demonstrate the reproducibility of the qubit frequencies with a 40 MHz standard deviation (i.e. 1%) with qubit quality factors exceeding 2 million. We perform two-level-system (TLS) spectroscopy and observe no significant increase in the number of TLSs causing qubit relaxation. We further show by simulation that for our parametric-gate architecture, and accounting only for errors caused by the uncertainty of the qubit frequency, we can scale up to 100 qubits with an average of only 3 collisions between quantum-gate transition frequencies, assuming 2% crosstalk and 99.9% target gate fidelity.
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spellingShingle Mitigation of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors
Osman, Amr
Fernàndez-Pendàs, Jorge
Warren, Christopher
Kosen, Sandoko
Scigliuzzo, Marco
Kockum, Anton Frisk
Tancredi, Giovanna
Roudsari, Anita Fadavi
Bylander, Jonas
Quantum Physics
Superconductivity
The reproducibility of qubit parameters is a challenge for scaling up superconducting quantum processors. Signal crosstalk imposes constraints on the frequency separation between neighboring qubits. The frequency uncertainty of transmon qubits arising from the fabrication process is attributed to deviations in the Josephson junction area, tunnel barrier thickness, and the qubit capacitor. We decrease the sensitivity to these variations by fabricating larger Josephson junctions and reduce the wafer-level standard deviation in resistance down to 2%. We characterize 32 identical transmon qubits and demonstrate the reproducibility of the qubit frequencies with a 40 MHz standard deviation (i.e. 1%) with qubit quality factors exceeding 2 million. We perform two-level-system (TLS) spectroscopy and observe no significant increase in the number of TLSs causing qubit relaxation. We further show by simulation that for our parametric-gate architecture, and accounting only for errors caused by the uncertainty of the qubit frequency, we can scale up to 100 qubits with an average of only 3 collisions between quantum-gate transition frequencies, assuming 2% crosstalk and 99.9% target gate fidelity.
title Mitigation of frequency collisions in superconducting quantum processors
topic Quantum Physics
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04663