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ArticleNature communications2025

Fast superconducting qubit control with subharmonic drives.

Mingkang Xia, Chao Zhou, Chenxu Liu, Param Patel, Xi Cao, Pinlei Lu, Boris Mesits, Maria Mucci, David Gorski, David Pekker and 1 more

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Mingkang XiaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. mix20@pitt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-2759-1506
Chao ZhouDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6828-148X
Chenxu LiuDepartment of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Param PatelDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Xi CaoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2797-6380
Pinlei LuDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8582-074X
Boris MesitsDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Maria MucciDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
David GorskiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
David PekkerDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Michael HatridgeDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. michael.hatridge@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0848-7867

Funding

United States Department of Defense | United States Air Force | AFMC | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AF Office of Scientific Research) FA9550-15-1-0015
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Abstract

Increasing the fidelity of single-qubit gates requires a combination of faster pulses and increased qubit coherence. However, these requirements can be contradictory. Additionally, increasing the drive power can heat the qubit's environment and degrade coherence. In this work, we circumvent this issue and achieve rapid gates by pumping a transmon's native Kerr at approximately one third of the qubit's resonant frequency. The subharmonic Rabi rate of the process is proportional to applied drive amplitude cubed, allowing for rapid gates. In addition, we demonstrate that filtering can be used to protect the qubit's coherence while performing rapid gates. Single qubit gates as short as 37.4 ns are demonstrated with fidelity of 99.91%. We present theoretical calculations indicating that drive induced multi-photon decay will not limit qubit lifetime; calculated power absorption also indicates that this technique could reduce cryostat heating for fast gates, a vital requirement for large-scale quantum computers.

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