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Fast Flux-Activated Leakage Reduction for Superconducting Quantum Circuits

2025· article· en· W4408818792 on OpenAlexafffund
Nathan Lacroix, Luca Hofele, Ants Remm, Othmane Benhayoune-Khadraoui, A. H. McDonald, Ross Shillito, Stefania Lazar, Christoph Hellings, François Swiadek, Dante Colao-Zanuz, Alexander Flasby, Mohsen Bahrami Panah, Michael Kerschbaum, Graham J. Norris, Alexandre Blais, Andreas Wallraff, Sebastian Krinner

Bibliographic record

VenuePhysical Review Letters · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Canadian institutionsCanadian Institute for Advanced ResearchUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersArmy Research OfficeNational Center of Competence in Research Quantum Science and TechnologyETH Zürich FoundationCanada First Research Excellence FundU.S. Department of EnergySchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen ForschungNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaEuropean CommissionIntelligence Advanced Research Projects ActivityEidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichOffice of the Director of National Intelligence
KeywordsMagnetic flux quantumLeakage (economics)SuperconductivityElectronic circuitReduction (mathematics)Materials scienceRapid single flux quantumQuantumFlux (metallurgy)Condensed matter physicsPhysicsQuantum mechanicsJosephson effect

Abstract

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Quantum computers will require quantum error correction to reach the low error rates necessary for solving problems that surpass the capabilities of conventional computers. One of the dominant errors limiting the performance of quantum error correction codes across multiple technology platforms is leakage out of the computational subspace arising from the multilevel structure of qubit implementations. Here, we present a resource-efficient universal leakage reduction unit for superconducting qubits using parametric flux modulation. This operation removes leakage down to our measurement inaccuracy of 7×10^{-4} in approximately 50 ns with a low error of 2.5(1)×10^{-3} on the computational subspace, thereby reaching durations and fidelities comparable to those of single-qubit gates. We demonstrate that using the leakage reduction unit in repeated weight-two stabilizer measurements reduces the total number of detected errors in a scalable fashion to close to what can be achieved using leakage-rejection methods that do not scale. Our approach does not require additional control electronics or on-chip components and is applicable to both auxiliary and data qubits. These benefits make our method particularly attractive for mitigating leakage in large-scale quantum error correction circuits, a crucial requirement for the practical implementation of fault-tolerant quantum computation.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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