Google Inc.

Quintiles Ims Incorporated

Yu Chen

Alireza Shabani Barzegar

Hartmut Neven

John Martinis

Daniel Thomas Sank

Dvir Kafri

Vadim Smelyanskiy

Charles Neill

Pedram Roushan

Rami Barends

Austin Greig Fowler

Anthony Edward Megrant

Sergio Boixo Castrillo

Zhang Jiang

Yuezhen Niu

Alexander Nikolaevich Korotkov

Harold J Petrimoulx

Kostyantyn Yevgenovych Kechedzhi

Andre Petukhov

Hossam Sadek

Barry W Summers

Mark Rathman

Xiao Mi

Jan Biddulph-Krentar

Charles James Neill

Systems and methods for composite quantum gate calibration for a quantum computing system are provided. In some implementations, a method includes accessing a unitary gate model describing a composite quantum gate. The unitary gate model includes a plurality of gate parameters. The method includes implementing the composite quantum gate for a plurality of gate cycles on the quantum system to amplify the plurality of gate parameters. The method includes obtaining a measurement of a state of the quantum system after implementing the composite quantum gate for the plurality of gate cycles. The method includes determining at least one of the plurality of gate parameters based at least in part on the measurement of the state of the quantum system. The method includes calibrating the composite quantum gate for the quantum computing system based at least in part on the plurality of gate parameters.

Composite quantum gate calibration

Methods, systems and apparatus for generating plunge schedules for implementing iSWAP quantum logic gates between a first qubit and a second qubit. In one aspect, a plunge schedule that defines a trajectory of a detuning between a frequency of the first qubit and a frequency of the second qubit includes, during a first stage, non-adiabatically driving detuning between the frequency of the first qubit and the frequency of the second qubit through a first avoided crossing in a leakage channel, during a second stage, driving detuning between the frequency of the first qubit and the frequency of the second qubit through a second avoided crossing in a swap channel. during a third stage, allowing the first qubit and the second qubit to freely evolve and interact, during a fourth stage, implementing the second stage in reverse order, and during a fifth stage, implementing the first stage in reverse order.

Non-adiabatic implementation of an iSWAP quantum logic gate

A qubit device includes an elongated thin film uninterrupted by Josephson junctions, a quantum device in electrical contact with a proximal end of the elongated thin film, and a ground plane that is co-planar with the elongated thin film and is in electrical contact with a distal end of the elongated thin film, in which the thin film, the quantum device, and the ground plane comprise a material that is superconducting at a designed operating temperature.

Co-planar waveguide flux qubits

Methods, systems, and apparatus for nonlinear calibration of quantum computing apparatus. In one aspect, elements in a set of experimental data correspond to a respective configuration of control biases for the quantum computing apparatus. An initial physical model comprising one or more model parameters of the quantum computing apparatus is defined. The model is iteratively adjusted to determine a revised physical model, where at each iteration: a set of predictive data corresponding to the set of experimental data is generated, and elements in the predictive data represent a difference between the two smallest eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian characterizing the system qubits for the previous iteration, and are dependent on at least one model parameter of the physical model for the previous iteration; and the model for the previous iteration is adjusted using the obtained experimental data and the generated set of predictive data for the iteration.

Nonlinear calibration of a quantum computing apparatus

Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing a target two-qubit quantum logic gate on a first qubit and second qubit using a tunable qubit coupler. In one aspect, a method includes generating a control signal for the target two-qubit quantum logic gate according to a control model, wherein the control model comprises a controlled-Z operator and a swap operator that are non-orthogonal; and applying the control signal to the first qubit, second qubit and tunable qubit coupler.

Frequency tunable qubit control strategy

A quantum computing device includes multiple co-planar waveguide flux qubits, at least one coupler element arranged such that each co-planar waveguide flux qubit, of the multiple co-planar waveguide flux qubits, is operatively couplable to each other co-planar waveguide flux qubit, of the multiple co-planar waveguide flux qubits, of the quantum computing device, and a tuning quantum device, in which the tuning quantum device is in electrical contact with a first co-planar waveguide flux qubit of the plurality of co-planar waveguide flux qubits and with a second co-planar waveguide flux qubit of the plurality of co-planar waveguide flux qubits.

Programmable universal quantum annealing with co-planar waveguide flux qubits

A quantum computing device includes: a first array of qubits arranged along a first axis; and a second array of qubits arranged along a second axis different from the first axis so that the qubits of the second array intersect with the qubits of the first array to form a lattice structure, in which each qubit in the first array is offset along the second axis relative to a directly adjacent qubit in the first array, each qubit in the second array is offset along the first axis relative to a directly adjacent qubit in the second array, and each intersection between a qubit from the first array and a qubit from the second array in the lattice structure comprises a coupler arranged to inductively couple the qubit from the first array to the qubit from the second array.

Coupling architectures for superconducting flux qubits

A device includes: a first qubit including a first co-planar waveguide; a second qubit including a second co-planar waveguide, in which the second co-planar waveguide crosses the first co-planar waveguide; and a qubit coupler including a loop having a first lobe and a second lobe, in which a first portion of the first lobe extends parallel to the first co-planar waveguide, a second portion of the first lobe extends parallel to the second co-planar waveguide, a first portion of the second lobe extends parallel to the first co-planar waveguide, and a second portion of the second lobe extends parallel to the second co-planar waveguide.

Magnetic flux control in superconducting device

The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for rating and ranking stakeholders in the distribution of controlled substances. One computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, retail prescription data, encrypted patient data, reference prescriber data, and pharmaceutical purchase data. For a retail outlet included in the received data, the method includes aggregating the received data and determining information about sales of a pharmaceutical product associated with the retail outlet. The method further includes rating the retail outlet based on the aggregated information.

Rating and ranking controlled substance distribution stakeholders

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