Unimon qubit

Abstract

Superconducting qubits are one of the most promising candidates to implement quantum computers. The superiority of superconducting quantum computers over any classical device in simulating random but well-determined quantum circuits has already been shown in two independent experiments and important steps have been taken in quantum error correction. However, the currently wide-spread qubit designs do not yet provide high enough performance to enable practical applications or efficient scaling of logical qubits owing to one or several following issues: sensitivity to charge or flux noise leading to decoherence, too weak non-linearity preventing fast operations, undesirably dense excitation spectrum, or complicated design vulnerable to parasitic capacitance. Here, we introduce and demonstrate a superconducting-qubit type, the unimon, which combines the desired properties of high non-linearity, full insensitivity to dc charge noise, insensitivity to flux noise, and a simple structure consisting only of a single Josephson junction in a resonator. We measure the qubit frequency, ${\omega }_{01}/(2\pi )$, and anharmonicity $\alpha$ over the full dc-flux range and observe, in agreement with our quantum models, that the qubit anharmonicity is greatly enhanced at the optimal operation point, yielding, for example, 99.9% and 99.8% fidelity for 13-ns single-qubit gates on two qubits with $({\omega }_{01},\alpha )=(4.49\mathrm{GHz},434\mathrm{MHz})\times 2\pi$ and $(3.55\mathrm{GHz},744\mathrm{MHz})\times 2\pi$, respectively. The energy relaxation time $T_1\lesssim 10\mu \mathrm{s}$ is stable for hours and seems to be limited by dielectric losses. Thus, future improvements of the design, materials, and gate time may promote the unimon to break the 99.99% fidelity target for efficient quantum error correction and possible quantum advantage with noisy systems.

arXiv commentMain text: 37 pages,10 figures, 3 tables. Supplementary: 34 pages, 8 figure, 1 table

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