Optimal control for fast and high-fidelity quantum gates in coupled superconducting flux qubits

Shang-Yu Huang and Hsi-Sheng Goan
Phys. Rev. A 90, 012318 – Published 14 July 2014

Abstract

We apply the quantum optimal control theory based on the Krotov method to implement single-qubit X and Z gates and two-qubit cnot gates for inductively coupled superconducting flux qubits with fixed qubit transition frequencies and fixed off-diagonal qubit-qubit coupling. Our scheme shares an advantage with other direct-coupling schemes in that it requires no additional coupler subcircuit and control lines. The control lines needed are only for the manipulation of individual qubits (e.g., a time-dependent magnetic flux or field applied on each qubit). The qubits are operated at the optimal coherence points and the gate operation times (less than 1 ns for single-qubit gates and 2 ns for cnotgates) are much shorter than the corresponding qubit decoherence time. A cnot gate or other general quantum gates can be implemented in a single run of the pulse sequence rather than being decomposed into several single-qubit and several entangled two-qubit operations in series by composite pulse sequences. Quantum gates constructed via our scheme are all with very high fidelity (very low error) as our optimal control scheme takes into account the fixed qubit detuning and fixed two-qubit interaction as well as all other time-dependent magnetic-field-induced single-qubit interactions and two-qubit couplings. The effect of leakage to higher-energy-level states and the effect of qubit decoherence on the quantum-gate operations are also discussed.

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  • Received 25 February 2014
  • Revised 12 June 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.012318

©2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Shang-Yu Huang and Hsi-Sheng Goan*

  • Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan and Center for Quantum Science and Engineering and National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

  • *goan@phys.ntu.edu.tw

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Vol. 90, Iss. 1 — July 2014

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