Coupler-Assisted Leakage Reduction for Scalable Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Qubits

Superconducting qubits are a promising platform for building fault-tolerant quantum computers, with recent achievement showing the suppression of logical error with increasing code size. However, leakage into noncomputational states, a common issue in practical quantum systems including superconduct...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2024-10, Vol.133 (17), p.170601, Article 170601
Hauptverfasser: Yang, Xiaohan, Chu, Ji, Guo, Zechen, Huang, Wenhui, Liang, Yongqi, Liu, Jiawei, Qiu, Jiawei, Sun, Xuandong, Tao, Ziyu, Zhang, Jiawei, Zhang, Jiajian, Zhang, Libo, Zhou, Yuxuan, Guo, Weijie, Hu, Ling, Jiang, Ji, Liu, Yang, Linpeng, Xiayu, Chen, Tingyong, Chen, Yuanzhen, Niu, Jingjing, Liu, Song, Zhong, Youpeng, Yu, Dapeng
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Zusammenfassung:Superconducting qubits are a promising platform for building fault-tolerant quantum computers, with recent achievement showing the suppression of logical error with increasing code size. However, leakage into noncomputational states, a common issue in practical quantum systems including superconducting circuits, introduces correlated errors that undermine quantum error correction (QEC) scalability. Here, we propose and demonstrate a leakage reduction scheme utilizing tunable couplers, a widely adopted ingredient in large-scale superconducting quantum processors. Leveraging the strong frequency tunability of the couplers and stray interaction between the couplers and readout resonators, we eliminate state leakage on the couplers, thus suppressing space-correlated errors caused by population propagation among the couplers. Assisted by the couplers, we further reduce leakage to higher qubit levels with high efficiency (98.1%) and low error rate on the computational subspace (0.58%), suppressing time-correlated errors during QEC cycles. The performance of our scheme demonstrates its potential as an indispensable building block for scalable QEC with superconducting qubits.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.170601