Optimized driving of superconducting artificial atoms for improved single-qubit gates
Jerry M. Chow, L. DiCarlo, Jay Gambetta +4 more
We employ simultaneous shaping of in-phase and out-of-phase resonant microwave drives to reduce single-qubit gate errors arising from the weak anharmonicity of transmon superconducting artificial atoms. To reduce the effect of higher levels present in the transmon spectrum, we apply Gaussian and derivative-of-Gaussian envelopes to the in-phase and out-of-phase quadratures, respectively, and optimize over their relative amplitude. Using randomized benchmarking, we obtain a minimum average error per gate of $0.007\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.005$ using 4-ns-wide pulses, which is limited by decoherence. This simple optimization technique works for multiple transmons coupled to a single microwave resonator in a quantum bus architecture.
arXiv:1005.1279•Physical Review A•Oct 27, 2010•219 citations