Microwave-activated high-fidelity three-qubit gate scheme for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits

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Main Authors: Zhao, Kui, Ma, Wei-Guo, Wang, Ziting, Li, Hao, Huang, Kaixuan, Shi, Yun-Hao, Xu, Kai, Fan, Heng
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author Zhao, Kui
Ma, Wei-Guo
Wang, Ziting
Li, Hao
Huang, Kaixuan
Shi, Yun-Hao
Xu, Kai
Fan, Heng
author_facet Zhao, Kui
Ma, Wei-Guo
Wang, Ziting
Li, Hao
Huang, Kaixuan
Shi, Yun-Hao
Xu, Kai
Fan, Heng
contents Scalable superconducting quantum processors require balancing critical constraints in coherence, control complexity, and spectral crowding. Fixed-frequency architectures suppress flux noise and simplify control via all-microwave operations but remain limited by residual ZZ crosstalk. Here we propose a microwave-activated three-qubit gate protocol for fixed-frequency transmon qubits in the large-detuning regime ($|Δ| \gg g$), leveraging the third-order nonlinear interaction to coherently exchange $\ket{001} \leftrightarrow \ket{110}$ states. By incorporating a phase-compensated optimization protocol, numerical simulations demonstrate a high average gate fidelity exceeding $99.9\%$. Systematic error analysis identifies static long-range ZZ coupling as the dominant error source in multi-qubit systems, which can be suppressed via operations in the large-detuning regime ($\sim 1$ GHz). The protocol maintains process fidelities exceeding $98\%$ under decoherence, while demonstrating intrinsic robustness to fabrication-induced parameter variations and compatibility with existing all-microwave two-qubit gate architectures. This hardware-efficient strategy advances scalable quantum computing systems by improving coherence properties, reducing spectral congestion, and expanding the experimental toolkit for error-resilient quantum operations in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era.
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spellingShingle Microwave-activated high-fidelity three-qubit gate scheme for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits
Zhao, Kui
Ma, Wei-Guo
Wang, Ziting
Li, Hao
Huang, Kaixuan
Shi, Yun-Hao
Xu, Kai
Fan, Heng
Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Applied Physics
Scalable superconducting quantum processors require balancing critical constraints in coherence, control complexity, and spectral crowding. Fixed-frequency architectures suppress flux noise and simplify control via all-microwave operations but remain limited by residual ZZ crosstalk. Here we propose a microwave-activated three-qubit gate protocol for fixed-frequency transmon qubits in the large-detuning regime ($|Δ| \gg g$), leveraging the third-order nonlinear interaction to coherently exchange $\ket{001} \leftrightarrow \ket{110}$ states. By incorporating a phase-compensated optimization protocol, numerical simulations demonstrate a high average gate fidelity exceeding $99.9\%$. Systematic error analysis identifies static long-range ZZ coupling as the dominant error source in multi-qubit systems, which can be suppressed via operations in the large-detuning regime ($\sim 1$ GHz). The protocol maintains process fidelities exceeding $98\%$ under decoherence, while demonstrating intrinsic robustness to fabrication-induced parameter variations and compatibility with existing all-microwave two-qubit gate architectures. This hardware-efficient strategy advances scalable quantum computing systems by improving coherence properties, reducing spectral congestion, and expanding the experimental toolkit for error-resilient quantum operations in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era.
title Microwave-activated high-fidelity three-qubit gate scheme for fixed-frequency superconducting qubits
topic Quantum Physics
Other Condensed Matter
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21346