Antenna-based quibit annealing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10707402-B2
Application number	US-201916591993-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2019
Priority date	Aug 28, 2018
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

Systems and techniques facilitating antenna-based thermal annealing of qubits are provided. In one example, a radio frequency emitter, transmitter, and/or antenna can be positioned above a superconducting qubit chip having a Josephson junction coupled to a set of one or more capacitor pads. The radio frequency emitter, transmitter, and/or antenna can emit an electromagnetic signal onto the set of one or more capacitor pads. The capacitor pads can function as receiving antennas and therefore receive the electromagnetic signal. Upon receipt of the electromagnetic signal, an alternating current and/or voltage can be induced in the capacitor pads, which current and/or voltage thereby heat the pads and the Josephson junction. The heating of the Josephson junction can change its physical properties, thereby annealing the Josephson junction. In another example, the emitter can direct the electromagnetic signal to avoid unwanted annealing of neighboring qubits on the superconducting qubit chip.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a superconducting qubit chip having a first Josephson junction with a first set of one or more capacitor pads; and
a first radio frequency (RF) emitter positioned above the superconducting qubit chip and that emits a first electromagnetic signal onto the first set of one or more capacitor pads, wherein, based on receipt of the first electromagnetic signal, the first set of one or more capacitor pads generate an alternating current or voltage at or within a defined distance from the first Josephson junction, thereby annealing the first Josephson junction, wherein the system further comprising a second Josephson junction on the superconducting qubit chip and that has a second set of one or more capacitor pads, wherein the first RF emitter localizes the first electromagnetic signal toward the first set of one or more capacitor pads of the first Josephson junction to prevent annealing of the second Josephson junction by the first electromagnetic signal.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first RF emitter controls at least one of a duration, a frequency, or a magnitude of the first electromagnetic signal to generate a defined level of the annealing of the first Josephson junction.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the first RF emitter ceases to emit the first electromagnetic signal in response to achieving the defined level of the annealing of the first Josephson junction.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second RF emitter positioned above the superconducting qubit chip and that emits and localizes a second electromagnetic signal toward the second set of one or more capacitor pads, thereby annealing the second Josephson junction, wherein the second RF emitter emits and localizes the second electromagnetic signal independently of and concurrently or sequentially with the first RF emitter emitting and localizing the first electromagnetic signal, thereby respectively facilitating independent and concurrent or sequential localized annealing of the first Josephson junction and the second Josephson junction.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein a frequency of the first electromagnetic signal belongs to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first RF emitter is sized to match the first set of one or more capacitor pads of the first Josephson junction.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein a first wavelength of the first electromagnetic signal is greater than or approximately equal to four times a first physical dimension of the first set of one or more capacitor pads.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Rosenblatt Sami
• Topaloglu Rasit Onur

Classifications

• H10N60/0884 Primary

  Treatment of superconductor layers by irradiation, e.g. ion-beam, electron-beam, laser beam or X-rays · CPC title

• G06N10/40 Primary

  Physical realisations or architectures of quantum processors or components for manipulating qubits, e.g. qubit coupling or qubit control · CPC title

• H10N60/805

  for Josephson-effect devices · CPC title

• H10N69/00

  Integrated devices, or assemblies of multiple devices, comprising at least one superconducting element covered by group H10N60/00 · CPC title

• H10N60/12

  Josephson-effect devices · CPC title