Hardware-Efficient Qubit Control with Single-Flux-Quantum Pulse Sequences

Single-flux-quantum (SFQ) digital logic is an attractive candidate for classical control and monitoring of large-scale quantum processors based on superconducting qubits. The authors describe a control approach based on repeated irradiation of the qubits with short registers of classical bits, which can be stored locally in compact SFQ registers and streamed to the quantum array at a high rate. Numerical simulations show achievable gate fidelity in excess of 99.99%; moreover, the approach allows control of many qubits resonating at different frequencies with a single, global SFQ clock. As a result, the scheme is well matched to the control of a scalable two-dimensional surface code.

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