Parity check operation in a surface code plaquette segment with superconducting qubits

ORAL

Abstract

An essential part of the two-dimensional surface code is the ability to perform $X$ and $Z$-stabilizer parity checks of code qubits via the measurement of ancilla qubits. We benchmark a complete set of high-fidelity single- and two-qubit gates on a three-qubit sub-section of a surface code layout comprised of superconducting resonators and transmons. Combining these gates with high-fidelity individual single-shot readouts, we show a parity check operation, deterministically entangling two qubits which are non-nearest neighbors.

*We acknowledge support from IARPA under contract W911NF-10-1-0324.

Authors

  • Jerry Chow

    • IBM
    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Jay Gambetta

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Srikanth Srinivasan

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Easwar Magesan

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Andrew Cross

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • David Abraham

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Nicholas Masluk

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Blake Johnson

    • BBN Technologies Raytheon
  • Colm Ryan

    • BBN Technologies Raytheon
  • Christopher Lirakis

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center
  • Matthias Steffen

    • IBM TJ Watson Research Center