Breaking the trade-off between fast control and long lifetime of a superconducting qubit

S. Kono (), K. Koshino, D. Lachance-Quirion, A. F. van Loo, Y. Tabuchi, A. Noguchi and Y. Nakamura ()
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S. Kono: RIKEN
K. Koshino: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
D. Lachance-Quirion: The University of Tokyo
A. F. van Loo: RIKEN
Y. Tabuchi: The University of Tokyo
A. Noguchi: The University of Tokyo
Y. Nakamura: RIKEN

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract The rapid development in designs and fabrication techniques of superconducting qubits has made coherence times of qubits longer. In the future, however, the radiative decay of a qubit into its control line will be a fundamental limitation, imposing a trade-off between fast control and long lifetime of the qubit. Here, we break this trade-off by strongly coupling another superconducting qubit along the control line. This second qubit, which we call “Josephson quantum filter” (JQF), prevents the first qubit from emitting microwave photons and thus suppresses its relaxation, while transmitting large-amplitude control microwave pulses due to the saturation of the quantum filter, enabling fast qubit control. This device functions as an automatic decoupler between a qubit and its control line and could help in the realization of a large-scale superconducting quantum processor by reducing the heating of the qubit environment and the crosstalk between qubits.

Date: 2020
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