Escaping Detrimental Interactions with Microwave-Dressed Transmon Qubits
Z. T. Wang1,2, Peng Zhao3*, Z. H. Yang1,2, Ye Tian1, H. F. Yu3,4, and S. P. Zhao1,2,4,5,6*
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 2School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 3Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China 4Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China 5CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China 6Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
Abstract：Superconducting transmon qubits with fixed frequencies are widely used in many applications due to their advantages of better coherence and less control lines compared to the frequency tunable qubits. However, any uncontrolled interactions with the qubits such as the two-level systems could lead to adverse impacts, degrading the qubit coherence and inducing crosstalk. To mitigate the detrimental effect from uncontrolled interactions between qubits and defect modes in fixed-frequency transmon qubits, we propose and demonstrate an active approach using an off-resonance microwave drive to dress the qubit and to induce the ac-Stark shift on the qubit frequency. We show experimentally that the qubit frequency can be tuned well away from the defect mode so that the impact on qubit coherence is greatly reduced while maintaining the universal controls of the qubit initialization, readout, and single-qubit gate operations. Our approach provides an effective way for tuning the qubit frequency and suppressing the detrimental effect from the defect modes that happen to be located close to the qubit frequency.
. [J]. 中国物理快报, 2023, 40(7): 70304-.
Z. T. Wang, Peng Zhao, Z. H. Yang, Ye Tian, H. F. Yu, and S. P. Zhao. Escaping Detrimental Interactions with Microwave-Dressed Transmon Qubits. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2023, 40(7): 70304-.
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