Demonstrating real-time and low-latency quantum error correction with superconducting qubits

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Main Authors: Caune, Laura, Skoric, Luka, Blunt, Nick S., Ruban, Archibald, McDaniel, Jimmy, Valery, Joseph A., Patterson, Andrew D., Gramolin, Alexander V., Majaniemi, Joonas, Barnes, Kenton M., Bialas, Tomasz, Buğdaycı, Okan, Crawford, Ophelia, Gehér, György P., Krovi, Hari, Matekole, Elisha, Topal, Canberk, Poletto, Stefano, Bryant, Michael, Snyder, Kalan, Gillespie, Neil I., Jones, Glenn, Johar, Kauser, Campbell, Earl T., Hill, Alexander D.
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author Caune, Laura
Skoric, Luka
Blunt, Nick S.
Ruban, Archibald
McDaniel, Jimmy
Valery, Joseph A.
Patterson, Andrew D.
Gramolin, Alexander V.
Majaniemi, Joonas
Barnes, Kenton M.
Bialas, Tomasz
Buğdaycı, Okan
Crawford, Ophelia
Gehér, György P.
Krovi, Hari
Matekole, Elisha
Topal, Canberk
Poletto, Stefano
Bryant, Michael
Snyder, Kalan
Gillespie, Neil I.
Jones, Glenn
Johar, Kauser
Campbell, Earl T.
Hill, Alexander D.
author_facet Caune, Laura
Skoric, Luka
Blunt, Nick S.
Ruban, Archibald
McDaniel, Jimmy
Valery, Joseph A.
Patterson, Andrew D.
Gramolin, Alexander V.
Majaniemi, Joonas
Barnes, Kenton M.
Bialas, Tomasz
Buğdaycı, Okan
Crawford, Ophelia
Gehér, György P.
Krovi, Hari
Matekole, Elisha
Topal, Canberk
Poletto, Stefano
Bryant, Michael
Snyder, Kalan
Gillespie, Neil I.
Jones, Glenn
Johar, Kauser
Campbell, Earl T.
Hill, Alexander D.
contents Quantum error correction (QEC) will be essential to achieve the accuracy needed for quantum computers to realise their full potential. The field has seen promising progress with demonstrations of early QEC and real-time decoded experiments. As quantum computers advance towards demonstrating a universal fault-tolerant logical gate set, implementing scalable and low-latency real-time decoding will be crucial to prevent the backlog problem, avoiding an exponential slowdown and maintaining a fast logical clock rate. Here, we demonstrate low-latency feedback with a scalable FPGA decoder integrated into the control system of a superconducting quantum processor. We perform an 8-qubit stability experiment with up to $25$ decoding rounds and a mean decoding time per round below $1$ $μs$, showing that we avoid the backlog problem even on superconducting hardware with the strictest speed requirements. We observe logical error suppression as the number of decoding rounds is increased. We also implement and time a fast-feedback experiment demonstrating a decoding response time of $9.6$ $μs$ for a total of $9$ measurement rounds. The decoder throughput and latency developed in this work, combined with continued device improvements, unlock the next generation of experiments that go beyond purely keeping logical qubits alive and into demonstrating building blocks of fault-tolerant computation, such as lattice surgery and magic state teleportation.
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spellingShingle Demonstrating real-time and low-latency quantum error correction with superconducting qubits
Caune, Laura
Skoric, Luka
Blunt, Nick S.
Ruban, Archibald
McDaniel, Jimmy
Valery, Joseph A.
Patterson, Andrew D.
Gramolin, Alexander V.
Majaniemi, Joonas
Barnes, Kenton M.
Bialas, Tomasz
Buğdaycı, Okan
Crawford, Ophelia
Gehér, György P.
Krovi, Hari
Matekole, Elisha
Topal, Canberk
Poletto, Stefano
Bryant, Michael
Snyder, Kalan
Gillespie, Neil I.
Jones, Glenn
Johar, Kauser
Campbell, Earl T.
Hill, Alexander D.
Quantum Physics
Quantum error correction (QEC) will be essential to achieve the accuracy needed for quantum computers to realise their full potential. The field has seen promising progress with demonstrations of early QEC and real-time decoded experiments. As quantum computers advance towards demonstrating a universal fault-tolerant logical gate set, implementing scalable and low-latency real-time decoding will be crucial to prevent the backlog problem, avoiding an exponential slowdown and maintaining a fast logical clock rate. Here, we demonstrate low-latency feedback with a scalable FPGA decoder integrated into the control system of a superconducting quantum processor. We perform an 8-qubit stability experiment with up to $25$ decoding rounds and a mean decoding time per round below $1$ $μs$, showing that we avoid the backlog problem even on superconducting hardware with the strictest speed requirements. We observe logical error suppression as the number of decoding rounds is increased. We also implement and time a fast-feedback experiment demonstrating a decoding response time of $9.6$ $μs$ for a total of $9$ measurement rounds. The decoder throughput and latency developed in this work, combined with continued device improvements, unlock the next generation of experiments that go beyond purely keeping logical qubits alive and into demonstrating building blocks of fault-tolerant computation, such as lattice surgery and magic state teleportation.
title Demonstrating real-time and low-latency quantum error correction with superconducting qubits
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05202