Efficient Decoupling of a Nonlinear Qubit Mode from Its Environment
To control and measure the state of a quantum system, it must necessarily be coupled to external degrees of freedom. This inevitably leads to spontaneous emission via the Purcell effect, photon-induced dephasing from measurement backaction, and errors caused by unwanted interactions with nearby quantum systems. To tackle this fundamental challenge, we make use of the design flexibility of superconducting quantum circuits to form a multimode element—an artificial molecule—with symmetry-protected modes. The proposed circuit consists of three superconducting islands coupled to a central island via Josephson junctions. It exhibits two essential nonlinear modes, one of which is flux insensitive and used as the protected qubit mode. The second mode is flux tunable and serves via a cross-Kerr-type coupling as a mediator to control the dispersive coupling of the qubit mode to the readout resonator. We demonstrate the Purcell protection of the qubit mode by measuring relaxation times that are independent of the mediated dispersive coupling. We show that the coherence of the qubit is not limited by photon-induced dephasing when detuning the mediator mode from the readout resonator and thereby reducing the dispersive coupling. The resulting highly protected qubit, which we refer to as P-mon, with tunable interactions may serve as a basic building block of a scalable quantum processor architecture, in which qubit decoherence is strongly suppressed. Published by the American Physical Society 2024
Authors
- Klaus Liegener (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7165-734X)
- Max Werninghaus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-9498)
- M. Knudsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9752-8829)
- Gleb Krylov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-0368)
- Franz X. Haslbeck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5246-753X)
- Stefan Filipp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1976-1817)
- Lasse Södergren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5208-8209)
- F. Wallner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-4692)
- Ivan Tsitsilin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9054-3695)
- Niklas J. Glaser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4453)
- L. Richard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8363-9225)
- Linda Koch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2943-1993)
- Meenakshi Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1165-5892)
- Federico Roy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-3100)
- Gerhard B. P. Huber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-634X)
- Frank Pfeiffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9215-4362)
- Carlos A. Riofrío (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7346-9198)
- João H. Romeiro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1288-1186)
- C. Schweizer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4565-947X)
- Achim Marx (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5886-6742)
- C. M. F. Schneider (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5766-7979)
- Johannes Schirk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5872-7962)
- N. Bruckmoser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8957-893X)
- D. Bunch
Institutions
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (DE)
- BMW Group (Germany) (DE)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- Saarland University (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review X
- Published
- 2024-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.14.041007
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.08
Funders
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
- HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions