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Fluxonium qubit is a promising elementary building block for quantum information processing due to its long coherence time combined with a strong anharmonicity. In this paper, we realize a 60-ns direct cnot gate on two inductively coupled fluxoniums, which behave almost exactly as a pair of transversely coupled spin-1/2 systems. The cnot-gate fidelity, estimated using randomized benchmarking, was as high as 99.94%. Furthermore, the fidelity remains above 99.9% for 24 days without any recalibration between measurements. Compared with the 99.96% fidelity of a 60-ns identity gate, our data brings the investigation of the nondecoherence-related errors during logical operations down to 2×10-4. The present result adds a simple and robust two-qubit gate into the still relatively small family of the "beyond three nines"gates on superconducting qubits.
Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Reza Farsi, Hernán Furci, Roberto Russo, André Chatel
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