Active Leakage Cancellation in Single Qubit Gates
arXiv:2503.14731 · doi:10.1103/4kz9-w97h
Abstract
The ability to perform fast and accurate rotations between the computational basis states of quantum bits is one of the most fundamental requirements for building a quantum computer. Because physical qubits generally contain more than two levels, faster gates often result in a higher leakage rate outside of the computational space. In this letter, we enhance the state-of-the-art single qubit gate by introducing active leakage cancellation. This is accomplished via a second drive tone near the leakage transition such that we cancel the leakage caused by the main drive. Furthermore, we describe a measurement sequence that can be used to calibrate the parameters of this leakage cancellation drive. Finally, we apply the technique to superconducting transmon qubits, suppressing the leakage below the level, and achieving coherence-limited gate infidelity of , for a 10 ns gate and 196 MHz qubit anharmonicity.
7 pages, 5 figures
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