Removing leakage-induced correlated errors in superconducting quantum error correction - Theory

ORAL

Abstract

Quantum computing can become scalable through error correction, but logical error rates only decrease with system size when physical errors are sufficiently uncorrelated. During computation, unused high energy levels of superconducting qubits can become excited, creating leakage states that are long-lived and mobile. Here, we report a multilevel reset protocol that returns a transmon superconducting qubit to the ground state from all relevant higher level states. The protocol is based on an adiabatic transfer of photons from each transmon to its readout resonator. We develop a three-phase semiclassical model describing the protocol and find good agreement with experiment. We then discuss application of the reset gate to the bit flip repetition code.

Presenters

  • Dvir Kafri

    • Google - Venice, CA

Authors

  • Dvir Kafri

    • Google - Venice, CA
  • Matthew McEwen

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Zijun Chen

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
    • Google Quantum AI
    • Google Inc - Santa Barbara
  • Juan Atalaya

    • Google - Venice, CA
    • University of California, Berkeley
  • Kevin Satzinger

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
    • University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Chicago; present in Google Inc
    • Google Quantum AI
    • Google Inc - Santa Barbara
  • Chris Quintana

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Paul V Klimov

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Daniel Sank

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Craig Gidney

    • Google LLC
    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Austin G Fowler

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Yu Chen

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • Google AI Quantum
    • Google Quantum AI
    • Google - Venice, CA
    • Google Inc - Santa Barbara
  • John Martinis

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Hartmut Neven

    • Google AI Quantum
    • Google Quantum AI
    • Google LLC
    • Google - Venice, CA
  • Julian Kelly

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Alexander N. Korotkov

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
    • Google - Venice, CA
  • Andre Petukhov

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA
  • Rami Barends

    • Google - Santa Barbara, CA