articlePhysical review. A/Physical review, AAug 31, 2017GREEN OA

Efficient Z gates for quantum computing

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Abstract

For superconducting qubits, microwave pulses drive rotations around the Bloch sphere. The phase of these drives can be used to generate zero-duration arbitrary virtual $Z$ gates, which, combined with two ${X}_{\ensuremath{\pi}/2}$ gates, can generate any SU(2) gate. Here we show how to best utilize these virtual $Z$ gates to both improve algorithms and correct pulse errors. We perform randomized benchmarking using a Clifford set of Hadamard and $Z$ gates and show that the error per Clifford is reduced versus a set consisting of standard finite-duration $X$ and $Y$ gates. $Z$ gates can correct unitary rotation errors for weakly anharmonic qubits as an alternative to pulse-shaping techniques such as derivative…

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Keywords
  • Bloch sphere
  • Quantum computer
  • Quantum decoherence
  • Quantum gate
  • Qubit
  • Hadamard transform
  • Leakage (economics)
  • Quantum mechanics
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