Demonstrates single-qubit Clifford gate errors of 1.5(4)×10⁻⁷ using microwave-driven ⁴³Ca⁺ hyperfine clock qubits at Oxford. Nearly an order of magnitude improvement over the previous record (Harty et al. 2014). Uses randomized benchmarking with up to 2.1 million Cliffords.

Key Results

  • 1Q Clifford gate error: 1.5(4) × 10⁻⁷ (fidelity 99.999985%)
  • Microwave-driven ⁴³Ca⁺ hyperfine clock qubit
  • ~10× improvement over Harty et al. 2014 record