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Area of Science:

  • Quantum Information Science
  • Superconducting Circuits
  • Quantum Computation

Background:

  • Universal gate sets are crucial for quantum computation but challenging to implement, especially in optical systems due to nonlinearity engineering difficulties.
  • Previous proposals for universal gate sets in continuous-variable (CV) quantum computation have faced experimental hurdles.
  • Superconducting circuits offer a promising platform for overcoming these limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide an explicit construction of a universal gate set for continuous-variable quantum computation using microwave circuits.
  • To demonstrate the experimental feasibility of implementing such a gate set.
  • To explore the application of this gate set in generating non-Gaussian states.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing a three-wave mixing microwave architecture.
  • Employing a superconducting nonlinear asymmetric inductive element.
  • Developing an experimentally feasible procedure for generating a cubic phase state.

Main Results:

  • An explicit construction of a universal gate set for CV quantum computation with microwave circuits is presented.
  • The proposed microwave architecture successfully overcomes the challenges of engineering strong nonlinearities.
  • A cubic phase state is generated using an experimentally feasible procedure.

Conclusions:

  • Microwave circuits offer a practical advantage over optical systems for engineering non-Gaussian states in quantum computation.
  • This work paves the way for continuous-variable algorithms utilizing elementary gates from the universal set.
  • The developed universal gate set is a significant step towards practical CV quantum computation.