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Characterization of the Cross Resonance Effect for Superconducting Transmon Qutrits

ORAL

Abstract


A qutrit architecture proposes several resource-efficiency related advantages over qubit processors, but still lacks reliable high-fidelity entanglement gates. Currently, one of the foremost mechanisms for qubit entangling gates is the cross resonance effect, which has enabled high-fidelity quantum computation. The cross resonance interaction can be described by an effective Hamiltonian, which has been thoroughly studied for qubit systems. However, such characterization is still missing for qutrit systems.
In this work, we experimentally characterize the cross resonance effect between two fixed frequency transmons from a qutrit perspective. We further generalize the so-called Hamiltonian tomography in order to incorporate the 2nd excited state into the computational basis. This work is a step towards engineering high-fidelity two-qutrit entangling gates.

Presenters

  • Merrell Brzeczek

    University of California, Berkeley

Authors

  • Merrell Brzeczek

    University of California, Berkeley

  • Alexis Morvan

    University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS - Université Paris Saclay

  • Ravi K. Naik

    University of California, Berkeley, Univ of California – Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, University of California Berkeley, Univ of California - Berkeley, Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, University of California - Berkeley

  • Brad Mitchell

    University of California, Berkeley, Univ of California – Berkeley, University of California - Berkeley

  • David Ivan Santiago

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley

  • Irfan Siddiqi

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Univ of California - Berkeley, Univ of California – Berkeley, Quantum Nanoelectronics Lab, UC Berkeley, Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley