High-fidelity error-resilient composite phase gates

Abstract

We present a method to construct high-fidelity quantum phase gates, which are insensitive to errors in various experimental parameters. The phase gates consist of a pair of two sequential broadband composite pulses, with a phase difference $\ensuremath{\pi}+\ensuremath{\alpha}/2$ between them, where $\ensuremath{\alpha}$ is the desired gate phase. By using composite pulses which compensate systematic errors in the pulse area, the frequency detuning, or both the area and the detuning, we thereby construct composite phase gates which compensate errors in the same parameters. Particularly interesting are phase gates which use the recently discovered universal composite pulses, which compensate systematic errors in any parameter of the driving field, which keep the evolution Hermitian (e.g., pulse amplitude and duration, pulse shape, frequency detuning, Stark shifts, residual frequency chirps, etc.).