Optimisation of pulse waveforms for qubit gates using deep learning

Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel method using deep neural networks (DNNs) to optimize the parameters of pulse waveforms used for manipulating qubit states, resulting in the high-fidelity implementation of qubit gates. High-fidelity quantum logic gates are crucial for scaling up current quantum computers. The proposed approach uses DNNs to model the functional relationship between amplitudes of pulse waveforms used in scheduling and the corresponding fidelities. The DNNs are trained using a dataset of amplitude and corresponding fidelities obtained through simulations of qubit gates in Qiskit. A two-stage approach is used with the trained DNNs to obtain amplitudes that yield the highest fidelity. The proposed method is evaluated by estimating the amplitude for pulse scheduling of single (Hadamard and Pauli-X) and two-qubit gates (CNOT). The results clearly indicate that the method can achieve high-fidelity implementations of single-qubit gates with fidelities of 0.999976 and 0.999923 for Hadamard and Pauli-X gates, respectively. For the CNOT gate, the best fidelity obtained is 0.695313. This can be attributed to the effects of entanglement and the need for the phase parameter to be accounted for within the predictive model.