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Mitigating crosstalk errors for simultaneous single-qubit gates on a superconducting quantum processor

Jaap J. Wesdorp, Eric Hyyppä, Joona Andersson, János Ádám, Rohit Beriwal, Ville Bergholm, Saga Dahl, Simone D Fasciati, Alejandro Gomez Frieiro, Zheming Gao, Daria Gusenkova, Andrew Guthrie, Johannes Heinsoo, Tuukka Hiltunen, Keiran Holland, Amin Hosseinkhani, Sinan Inel, Joni Ikonen, Shan W. Jolin, Kristinn Júlíusson, S. Kim, Anton Komlev, Roope Kokkoniemi, Otto Koskinen, Joonas Kylmälä, Alessandro Landra, Julia Lamprich, Magdalena Lehmuskoski, Nizar Lethif, Per Liebermann, Tianyi Li, Aleksi Lintunen, Fabian Marxer, Kunal Mitra, Jakub Mrożek, Lucas Ortega, Miha Papič, Matti Partanen, Alexander Plyushch, Stefan Pogorzalek, Michael Renger, Jussi Ritvas, Sampo Saarinen, Indrajeet Sagar, Matthew Sarsby, Mykhailo Savytskyi, Ville Selinmaa, Ivan Takmakov, Brian Tarasinski, Francesca Tosto, David Vasey, Panu Vesanen, Jeroen Verjauw, Alpo Välimaa, Nicola Wurz, Hsiang‐Sheng Ku, Frank Deppe, Juha Hassel, Caspar F. Ockeloen-Korppi, Wei Liu, Jani Tuorila, Chun Fai Chan, Attila Geresdi, Antti P. Vepsäläinen

Published Sep 23, 2026• 0 citations

DOI: 10.1103/qhss-mgkt

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