General method for extracting the quantum efficiency of dispersive qubit readout in circuit QED

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Abstract

We present and demonstrate a general 3-step method for extracting the quantum efficiency of dispersive qubit readout in circuit QED. We use active depletion of post-measurement photons and optimal integration weight functions on two quadratures to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio of non-steady-state homodyne measurement. We derive analytically that the method robustly extracts the quantum efficiency for arbitrary readout conditions in the linear regime. To demonstrate generality, we extract the quantum efficiency as a function of the readout drive frequency and for different drive envelopes. We use the proven method to optimally bias a Josephon travelling-wave parametric amplifier and to quantify the different noise contributions in the readout amplification chain. This method allows in-situ characterization and optimization of the quantum efficiency in extensible multi-qubit architectures.

*Reasearch funded by U.S. Army Research Office Grant W911NF-16-1-0071.

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Presenters

  • Cornelis Christiaan Bultink

    • QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology

Authors

  • Cornelis Christiaan Bultink

    • QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology

  • Brian Tarasinski

    • QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology

  • Niels Haandbæk

    • Zurich Instruments

  • Stefano Poletto

    • QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
    • Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology

  • Nadia Haider

    • QuTech and TNO
    • QuTech and Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

  • David Michalak

    • Components Research, Intel Corporation
    • Intel Corporation

  • Alessandro Bruno

    • QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
    • Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology
    • QuTech, Delft Univ. of Technology

  • Leonardo DiCarlo

    • QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
    • TUD Faculty of Sciences, QuTech
    • Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology