Suppressing superconducting qubit measurement-induced state transitions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12456067-B2
Application number	US-202318161365-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2023
Priority date	Jan 30, 2023
Publication date	Oct 28, 2025
Grant date	Oct 28, 2025

Abstract

One or more electronic systems, electronic structures and/or methods provided herein relate to quantum state measurement while suppressing measurement-induced state transition in a superconducting qubit. An electronic system can comprise a superconducting qubit coupled to a tunable coupler qubit (TCQ), and a microwave drive port coupled to the TCQ. A resonator can be coupled between the TCQ and the microwave drive port. The resonator can be coupled to the microwave drive port by direct capacitive coupling or inductive coupling. The superconducting qubit can be coupled to the TCQ by a pair of parallelly-arranged coupling capacitors having equal capacitance to one another, or the resonator can be coupled to the TCQ by a pair of parallelly-arranged coupling capacitors having equal capacitance to one another.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic system, comprising:
a superconducting qubit coupled to a tunable coupler qubit (TCQ);
a microwave drive port coupled to the TCQ; and
a resonator coupled between the TCQ and the microwave drive port,
wherein the superconducting qubit is coupled to the TCQ by a pair of parallelly-arranged coupling capacitors having equal capacitance to one another, or wherein the resonator is coupled to the TCQ by the pair of parallelly-arranged coupling capacitors having equal capacitance to one another.

2. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the resonator is coupled to the microwave drive port by direct capacitive coupling.

3. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the resonator is coupled to the microwave drive port by inductive coupling.

4. The electronic system of claim 1 , absent exchange coupling between the superconducting qubit and the resonator.

5. The electronic system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a charge line separate from the resonator and coupled to the superconducting qubit,

wherein the charge line is configured to receive signals for driving the superconducting qubit.

6. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the superconducting qubit is a transmon qubit.

7. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the superconducting qubit is a capacitively shunted flux qubit.

8. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the superconducting qubit is a fluxonium-type qubit.

9. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the superconducting qubit is another TCQ.

10. The electronic system of claim 1 , wherein the resonator is one of a waveguide resonator, a coplanar waveguide resonator, or a lumped element resonator.

11. An electronic structure, comprising:
a superconducting qubit coupled to a tunable coupler qubit (TCQ); and
a resonator coupled to the TCQ and configured to be coupled to a microwave drive port,
wherein the TCQ comprises a set of three capacitor pads coupled in series to one another,

and wherein the superconducting qubit comprises a first capacitor pad and a second capacitor pad, and
wherein the resonator is coupled to a central capacitor pad of the TCQ, of the set of three capacitor pads.

12. The electronic structure of claim 11 , wherein the superconducting qubit is one of a transmon qubit, a capacitively shunted flux qubit, a fluxonium-type qubit, or another TCQ, and wherein the resonator is one of a waveguide resonator, a coplanar waveguide resonator, or a lumped element resonator.

13. The electronic structure of claim 11 , wherein the first capacitor pad is coupled to a first outer capacitor pad of the TCQ, of the set of three capacitor pads, and wherein the second capacitor pad is coupled to a second outer capacitor pad of the TCQ, of the set of three capacitor pads.

14. The electronic structure of claim 13 , wherein the first capacitor pad is coupled to the first outer capacitor pad of the TCQ by a first direct capacitive coupling, and wherein the second capacitor pad is coupled to the second outer capacitor pad of the TCQ by a second direct capacitive coupling.

15. The electronic structure of claim 14 , wherein the first direct capacitive coupling and the second direct capacitive coupling each comprise a coupling capacitor having equal capacitance to one another.

16. An electronic system, comprising:
a superconducting qubit coupled to a resonator that is in turn coupled to a microwave drive port of readout electronics of a qubit state readout subsystem,
wherein the superconducting qubit is coupled to the resonator by a tunable coupler qubit (TCQ), and wherein exchange coupling with the TCQ is only to a mode of the TCQ having an antisymmetric combination of excitations of a pair of Josephson junctions of the TCQ,
wherein the exchange coupling with the TCQ is facilitated by a pair of parallelly-arranged coupling capacitors having equal capacitance to one another and coupling the mode of the TCQ to one of the resonator or the superconducting qubit, and
wherein the exchange coupling is absent between the superconducting qubit and the resonator.

17. The electronic system of claim 16 , wherein the superconducting qubit is one of a transmon qubit, a capacitively shunted flux qubit, a fluxonium-type qubit, or another TCQ.

18. The electronic system of claim 16 , wherein the resonator is one of a waveguide resonator, a coplanar waveguide resonator, or a lumped element resonator.

19. A method of using a quantum system, comprising:
conducting, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a dispersive readout of a state of a superconducting qubit, using readout electronics coupled to the superconducting qubit by a resonator, wherein exchange coupling is absent between the superconducting qubit and the resonator; and
conducting, by the system, exchange coupling to a mode of a tunable coupler qubit (TCQ) that couples the superconducting qubit to the resonator, wherein the mode of the TCQ has an antisymmetric combination of excitations of a pair of Josephson junctions of the TCQ, and

wherein the exchange coupling to the TCQ is facilitated by a pair of parallelly-arranged coupling capacitors having equal capacitance to one another and coupling the mode of the TCQ to one of the resonator or the superconducting qubit.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the superconducting qubit is one of a transmon qubit, a capacitively shunted flux qubit, a fluxonium-type qubit, or another TCQ.

21. An electronic structure, comprising:
a superconducting qubit coupled to a tunable coupler qubit (TCQ); and
a resonator coupled to the TCQ and configured to be coupled to a microwave drive port,
wherein the TCQ comprises a set of three capacitor pads coupled in series to one another,

and wherein the superconducting qubit comprises a first capacitor pad and a second capacitor pad, and
wherein the resonator is coupled to a first outer capacitor pad of the TCQ, of the set of three capacitor pads, and to a second outer capacitor pad of the TCQ, of the set of three capacitor pads.

22. The electronic structure of claim 21 , wherein the first capacitor pad or the second capacitor pad is coupled to a central capacitor pad of the TCQ, of the set of three capacitor pads.

23. The electronic structure of claim 22 , wherein the first capacitor pad or the second capacitor pad is coupled to the central capacitor pad of the TCQ by direct capacitive coupling, wherein the first outer capacitor pad of the TCQ is coupled to the resonator by a first direct capacitive coupling, and wherein the second outer capacitor pad of the TCQ is coupled to the resonator by a second direct capacitive coupling.

24. The electronic structure of claim 23 , wherein the first direct capacitive coupling and the second direct capacitive coupling each comprise a coupling capacitor having equal capacitance to one another.

25. The electronic structure of claim 21 , wherein the superconducting qubit is one of a transmon qubit, a capacitively shunted flux qubit, a fluxonium-type qubit, or another TCQ, and wherein the resonator is one of a waveguide resonator, a coplanar waveguide resonator, or a lumped element resonator.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Finck Aaron

Classifications

• H03K17/92 Primary

  by the use, as active elements, of superconductive devices · CPC title

• G06N10/00

  Quantum computing, i.e. information processing based on quantum-mechanical phenomena · 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