Coupler-Assisted Leakage Reduction for Scalable Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Qubits
Xiaohan Yang, Ji Chu, Zechen Guo, Wenhui Huang, Yongqi Liang, Jiawei Liu, Jiawei Qiu, Xuandong Sun, Ziyu Tao, Jiawei Zhang, Jiajian Zhang, Libo Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Weijie Guo, Ling Hu, Ji Jiang, Yang Liu, Xiayu Linpeng, Tingyong Chen, Yuanzhen Chen, Jingjing Niu, Song Liu, Youpeng Zhong, Dapeng Yu
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.170601 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
Superconducting qubits are a promising platform for building fault-tolerant quantum computers, with recent achievement showing the suppression of logical error with increasing code size. However, leakage into noncomputational states, a common issue in practical quantum systems including superconducting circuits, introduces correlated errors that undermine quantum error correction (QEC) scalability. Here, we propose and demonstrate a leakage reduction scheme utilizing tunable couplers, a widely adopted ingredient in large-scale superconducting quantum processors. Leveraging the strong frequency tunability of the couplers and stray interaction between the couplers and readout resonators, we eliminate state leakage on the couplers, thus suppressing space-correlated errors caused by population propagation among the couplers. Assisted by the couplers, we further reduce leakage to higher qubit levels with high efficiency (98.1%) and low error rate on the computational subspace (0.58%), suppressing time-correlated errors during QEC cycles. The performance of our scheme demonstrates its potential as an indispensable building block for scalable QEC with superconducting qubits.
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