Modeling phonon-mediated quasiparticle poisoning in superconducting qubit arrays

Autor: Yelton, Eric, Larson, Clayton P., Iaia, Vito, Dodge, Kenneth, La Magna, Guglielmo, Baity, Paul G., Pechenezhskiy, Ivan V., McDermott, Robert, Kurinsky, Noah, Catelani, Gianluigi, Plourde, Britton L. T.
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Physical Review B 110, 024519 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.024519
Popis: Correlated errors caused by ionizing radiation impacting superconducting qubit chips are problematic for quantum error correction. Such impacts generate quasiparticle (QP) excitations in the qubit electrodes, which temporarily reduce qubit coherence significantly. The many energetic phonons produced by a particle impact travel efficiently throughout the device substrate and generate quasiparticles with high probability, thus causing errors on a large fraction of the qubits in an array simultaneously. We describe a comprehensive strategy for the numerical simulation of the phonon and quasiparticle dynamics in the aftermath of an impact. We compare the simulations with experimental measurements of phonon-mediated QP poisoning and demonstrate that our modeling captures the spatial and temporal footprint of the QP poisoning for various configurations of phonon downconversion structures. We thus present a path forward for the operation of superconducting quantum processors in the presence of ionizing radiation.
Comment: 18 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables
Databáze: arXiv