Diabatic Gates for Frequency-Tunable Superconducting Qubits

Phys Rev Lett. 2019 Nov 22;123(21):210501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.210501.

Abstract

We demonstrate diabatic two-qubit gates with Pauli error rates down to 4.3(2)×10^{-3} in as fast as 18 ns using frequency-tunable superconducting qubits. This is achieved by synchronizing the entangling parameters with minima in the leakage channel. The synchronization shows a landscape in gate parameter space that agrees with model predictions and facilitates robust tune-up. We test both iswap-like and cphase gates with cross-entropy benchmarking. The presented approach can be extended to multibody operations as well.