Experimental advances with the QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit) for superconducting quantum hardware

Chunyang Ding, Martin Di Federico, Michael Hatridge, Andrew Houck, Sebastien Leger, Jeronimo Martinez, Connie Miao, I. David Schuster, Leandro Stefanazzi, Chris Stoughton, Sara Sussman, Ken Treptow, Sho Uemura, Neal Wilcer, Helin Zhang, Chao Zhou, Gustavo Cancelo

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Abstract

The Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK) is a standalone open-source qubit controller that was first introduced in 2022. In this follow-up work, we present recent upgrades to the QICK and the experimental use cases they uniquely enabled for superconducting qubit systems. These include multiplexed signal generation and readout, mixer-free readout, predistorted fast flux pulses, and phase-coherent pulses for parametric operations, including high-fidelity parametric entangling gates. We explain in detail how the QICK was used to enable these experiments.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number013305
JournalPhysical Review Research
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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