Designing High-Fidelity Single-Shot Three-Qubit Gates: A Machine Learning Approach

Three-qubit quantum gates are key ingredients for quantum error correction and quantum-information processing. We generate quantum-control procedures to design three types of three-qubit gates, namely Toffoli, controlled-NOT-NOT, and Fredkin gates. The design procedures are applicable to a system comprising three nearest-neighbor-coupled superconducting artificial atoms. For each three-qubit gate, the numerical simulation of the proposed scheme achieves 99.9% fidelity, which is an accepted threshold fidelity for fault-tolerant quantum computing. We test our procedure in the presence of decoherence-induced noise and show its robustness against random external noise generated by the control electronics. The three-qubit gates are designed via the machine-learning algorithm called subspace-selective self-adaptive differential evolution.

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