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Inherent flux crosstalk and coupler-driven single-qubit gates in superconducting circuits

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Tunable Coupler is a classical hardware coupling approach for quantum computing hardware. Source: latex text.

Abstract

Crosstalk refers to unwanted qubit addressing. This is particularly detrimental when scaling up quantum information systems because unintended interactions limit their overall performance. For superconducting qubits, tunable couplings and frequency tunability achieved through externally applied magnetic fluxes enable high-fidelity entangling gates; however, they also introduce crosstalk through unintended flux coupling. In this work, we investigate the impact of time-dependent external magnetic fluxes in quantized circuits on superconducting qubit couplings. We find that non-trivial cross-voltage driving emerges between capacitively linked qubits when the magnetic flux threading the SQUID loop of a qubit varies in time, in a manner analogous to Faraday’s law of induction. Crucially, we show that this effect enables fast single qubit control through the coupler element in standard tunable-coupler architectures, potentially eliminating the need for individual microwave control lines.

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