Radio frequency mixing modules for superconducting qubit room temperature control systems

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Abstract

As the number of qubits in nascent quantum processing units increases, the connectorized RF (radio frequency) analog circuits used in first generation experiments become exceedingly complex. The physical size, cost, and electrical failure rate all become limiting factors in the extensibility of control systems. We have developed a series of compact RF mixing boards to address this challenge by integrating I/Q quadrature mixing, intermediate frequency/LO (local oscillator)/RF power level adjustments, and direct current bias fine tuning on a 40 × 80 mm2 four-layer printed circuit board with electromagnetic interference shielding. The RF mixing module is designed to work with RF and LO frequencies between 2.5 and 8.5 GHz. The typical image rejection and adjacent channel isolation are measured to be ∼27 dBc and ∼50 dB. By scanning the drive phase in a loopback test, the module short-term amplitude and phase linearity are typically measured to be 5 ×10−4 (Vpp/Vmean) and 1 ×10−3 radian (pk-pk). The operation of the RF mixing board was validated by integrating it into the room temperature control system of a superconducting quantum processor and executing randomized benchmarking characterization of single and two qubit gates. We measured a single-qubit process infidelity of 9.3(3) × 10−4 and a two-qubit process infidelity of 2.7(1) × 10−2

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Xu, Y., Huang, G., Santiago, D. I., & Siddiqi, I. (2021). Radio frequency mixing modules for superconducting qubit room temperature control systems. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92(7). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0055906

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