Two-qubit gate using conditional driving for highly detuned Kerr nonlinear parametric oscillators

Abstract

A Kerr nonlinear parametric oscillator (KPO) is one of the promising devices used to realize qubits for universal quantum computing. The KPO can stabilize two coherent states with opposite phases, yielding a quantum superposition called a Schrödinger cat state. Universal quantum computing with KPOs requires three kinds of quantum gates: R_{z},R_{x}, and R_{zz} gates. We theoretically propose a two-qubit gate R_{zz} for highly detuned KPOs. In the proposed scheme, we add a parametric drive for the first KPO. This leads to the R_{zz} gate based on the driving of the second KPO depending on the first-KPO state, which we call “conditional driving.” First, we perform simulations using a conventional KPO Hamiltonian derived from a superconducting-circuit model under some approximations and evaluate the gate fidelity. Next, we also perform numerical simulations of the two-qubit gate using the superconducting-circuit model without the approximations. The simulation results indicate that the conditional-driving gates can be implemented with high fidelity (>99.9%) for rotation angles required for universality.