Laurin E. Fischer, Daniel Miller, et al.
PRResearch
Increasing coherence times of quantum bits is a fundamental challenge in the field of quantum computing. With long-lived qubits it is, however, inefficient to wait until the qubits have relaxed to their ground state after completion of an experiment. Moreover, for error-correction schemes it is important to rapidly reinitialize syndrome qubits. We present a simple pulsed qubit reset protocol based on a two-pulse sequence. A first pulse transfers the excited-state population to a higher excited qubit state and a second pulse transfer it into a lossy environment provided by a low-Q transmission-line resonator, which is also used for qubit read-out. We show that the remaining excited-state population can be suppressed to (1.7±0.1)% and that this figure may be reduced by further improving the pulse calibration.
Laurin E. Fischer, Daniel Miller, et al.
PRResearch
Daniel J. Egger, Marc Ganzhorn, et al.
Physical Review Applied
Stefan H. Sack, Daniel J. Egger
PRResearch
Conrad J. Haupt, Daniel J. Egger
Physical Review A