Overcoming I/O bottleneck in superconducting quantum computing: multiplexed qubit control with ultra-low-power, base-temperature cryo-CMOS multiplexer

TL;DR

This paper introduces an ultra-low power cryo-CMOS multiplexer operating below 15 mK that enables scalable, high-fidelity control of superconducting qubits while minimizing thermal and electronic noise, addressing the I/O bottleneck in large-scale quantum computing.

Contribution

The authors develop and demonstrate a cryo-CMOS multiplexer that operates at millikelvin temperatures, allowing scalable qubit control with minimal impact on qubit coherence and high gate fidelity.

Findings

Qubit relaxation times ($T_1$) remain unaffected.

Qubit coherence times ($T_2$) are minimally affected.

Single qubit gate fidelities above 99.9% achieved.

Abstract

Large-scale superconducting quantum computing systems entail high-fidelity control and readout of large numbers of qubits at millikelvin temperatures, resulting in a massive input-output bottleneck. Cryo-electronics, based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, may offer a scalable and versatile solution to overcome this bottleneck. However, detrimental effects due to cross-coupling between the electronic and thermal noise generated during cryo-electronics operation and the qubits need to be avoided. Here we present an ultra-low power radio-frequency (RF) multiplexing cryo-electronics solution operating below 15 mK that allows for control and interfacing of superconducting qubits with minimal cross-coupling. We benchmark its performance by interfacing it with a superconducting qubit and observe that the qubit's relaxation times ($T_1$) are unaffected, while the coherence times ($T_2$) are only minimally affected in both static and dynamic operation. Using the multiplexer, single qubit gate fidelities above 99.9%, i.e., well above the threshold for surface-code based quantum error-correction, can be achieved with appropriate thermal filtering. In addition, we demonstrate the capability of time-division-multiplexed qubit control by dynamically windowing calibrated qubit control pulses. Our results show that cryo-CMOS multiplexers could be used to significantly reduce the wiring resources for large-scale qubit device characterization, large-scale quantum processor control and quantum error correction protocols.