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Area of Science:

  • Quantum Computing and Information Science
  • Quantum Error Correction
  • Superconducting Qubit Control

Background:

  • Scaling quantum processors requires maintaining gate fidelity beyond the fault-tolerance error threshold.
  • Challenges include manufacturing high-performance quantum hardware and engineering scalable control systems.
  • Control optimization for large quantum systems is complex, involving non-convex, high-constraint, and time-dynamic problems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a scalable control optimization strategy for complex quantum gate operations.
  • To demonstrate the strategy's effectiveness in mitigating computational errors in superconducting qubits.
  • To address the generic scaling challenge in quantum computing control.

Main Methods:

  • Choreographing frequency trajectories of 68 frequency-tunable superconducting qubits.
  • Executing single- and two-qubit gates with optimized control parameters.
  • Integrating the strategy with a comprehensive physical error model of the quantum processor.

Main Results:

  • The control optimization strategy suppressed physical error rates by approximately 3.7 times compared to unoptimized control.
  • Demonstrated successful execution of quantum gates on a large-scale superconducting qubit processor.
  • Projected performance advantage for a distance-23 surface code logical qubit using 1057 physical qubits.

Conclusions:

  • The developed control optimization strategy effectively scales quantum gate operations while mitigating errors.
  • This approach addresses a critical bottleneck in building fault-tolerant quantum computers.
  • The strategy is adaptable to various quantum operations, algorithms, and architectures.