Reducing unitary and spectator errors in cross resonance with optimized rotary echoes

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Title: Reducing unitary and spectator errors in cross resonance with optimized rotary echoes
Authors: Sundaresan, Neereja, Lauer, Isaac, Pritchett, Emily, Magesan, Easwar, Jurcevic, Petar, Gambetta, Jay M.
Source: PRX Quantum 1, 020318 (2020)
Publication Year: 2020
Collection: Quantum Physics
Subject Terms: Quantum Physics
More Details: We present an improvement to the cross resonance gate realized with the addition of resonant, target rotary pulses. These pulses, applied directly to the target qubit, are simultaneous to and in phase with the echoed cross resonance pulses. Using specialized Hamiltonian error amplifying tomography, we confirm a reduction of error terms with target rotary -- directly translating to improved two-qubit gate fidelity. Beyond improvement in the control-target subspace, the target rotary reduces entanglement between target and target spectators caused by residual quantum interactions. We further characterize multi-qubit performance improvement enabled by target rotary pulsing using unitarity benchmarking and quantum volume measurements, achieving a new record quantum volume for a superconducting qubit system.
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PRXQuantum.1.020318
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02925
Accession Number: edsarx.2007.02925
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1103/PRXQuantum.1.020318