Novel Measurements for Annealing Capable Flux Qubits

ORAL

Abstract


Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP) based measurements have demonstrated the ability to implement high fidelity z-basis readout for high coherence capacitively shunted flux qubits (CSFQs) at the end of an anneal. This talk discusses alternative QFP readout procedures including: (i) at early times in the anneal, (ii) for other non z-loop currents, and (iii) for Josephson phase slip qubits (JPSQs). It is shown how the POVM (positive-operator valued measure) that characterizes the qubit measurement in these novel regimes can be derived from the final QFP POVM by modeling the dynamics of the coupled QFP-qubit system.

*This material is supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) through the Army Research Office (ARO) Contract No. W911NF-17-C-0050.

Presenters

  • Wade DeGottardi

    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems

Authors

  • Wade DeGottardi

    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
  • David J. Clarke

    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
  • Sergey Novikov

    • Northrop Grumman
    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • James I Basham

    • Northrop Grumman
    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • Jeffrey Grover

    • Northrop Grumman
    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • Steven M Disseler

    • Northrop Grumman
    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Northrop Grumman Corporation
  • David Ferguson

    • Northrop Grumman - Mission Systems
    • Northrop Grumman Corporation