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Quantum computation with cat qubits

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Jérémie Guillaud, Joachim Cohen, M. Mirrahimi
SciPost Physics Lecture Notes

This work argues that the case of cat qubits stabilized by a nonlinear multi-photon driven dissipation process with superconducting circuits can be seen as a self-correcting qubit where bit-flip errors are robustly and exponentially suppressed.

Abstract

These are the lecture notes from the 2019 Les Houches Summer School on “Quantum Information Machines”. After a brief introduction to quantum error correction and bosonic codes, we focus on the case of cat qubits stabilized by a nonlinear multi-photon driven dissipation process. We argue that such a system can be seen as a self-correcting qubit where bit-flip errors are robustly and exponentially suppressed. Next, we provide some experimental directions to engineer such a multi-photon driven dissipation process with superconducting circuits. Finally, we analyze various logical gates that can be implemented without re-introducing bit-flip errors. This set of bias-preserving gates pave the way towards a hardware-efficient and fault-tolerant quantum processor.