Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology (Mar 2023)

Shortcuts to adiabaticity in a fast controlled-phase gate in superconducting quantum circuits

  • Jia-Xin Li,
  • F. A. Cárdenas-López,
  • F. A. Cárdenas-López,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Xi Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/frqst.2023.1135816
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2

Abstract

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Based on renewed interest in the shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques in quantum control, we propose a reverse-engineering approach to modulate the longitudinal coupling between a pair of two-level systems with a quantized single-mode resonator. This allows us to suppress the unwanted transitions in the time-evolution operator such that the system dynamics resemble a controlled-phase gate acting in the qubit subspace at the nanosecond scale. The reduced gating time mitigates the detrimental effect produced by the loss mechanisms in all aspects. Moreover, we present a possible experimental implementation based on superconducting quantum circuits. Our work further demonstrates the versatility of the reverse-engineering method to enhance quantum protocols based on circuit quantum electrodynamic architecture.

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