A low-noise on-chip coherent microwave source
arXiv:2103.07617 · doi:10.1038/s41928-021-00680-z
Abstract
The scaleup of quantum computers operating in the microwave domain requires advanced control electronics, and the use of integrated components that operate at the temperature of the quantum devices is potentially beneficial. However, such an approach requires ultra-low power dissipation and high signal quality in order to ensure quantum-coherent operations. Here, we report an on-chip device that is based on a Josephson junction coupled to a spiral resonator and is capable of coherent continuous-wave microwave emission. We show that characteristics of the device accurately follow a theory based on a perturbative treatment of the capacitively shunted Josephson junction as a gain element. The infidelity of typical quantum gate operations due to the phase noise of this cryogenic 25-pW microwave source is less than 0.1% up to 10-ms evolution times, which is below the infidelity caused by dephasing in state-of-the-art superconducting qubits. Together with future cryogenic amplitude and phase modulation techniques, our approach may lead to scalable cryogenic control systems for quantum processors.
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