Abstract

High-fidelity initialization, manipulation, and measurement of qubits are important in quantum computing. For the Google’s Sycamore processor, the gate fidelity of single- and two-qubit logic operations has improved to>99.6%, whereas single-shot measurement fidelity remains at the level of 97%, which severely limits the application of the superconducting approach to large-scale quantum computing. The current measurement scheme relies on the dispersive interaction between the qubit and the readout resonator, which was proposed back in 2004. However, the measurement fidelity is limited by the trade-off between the state separation and relaxation time of the two-level system. Recently, an exciting phenomenon was observed experimentally, wherein the separation-decay limit could be alleviated by exploiting the cascade decay nature of the higher levels; however, the mechanism and effectiveness of this phenomenon are still unclear. Herein, we present a theoretical tool to extract different types of errors in high-level states encoding dispersive measurement. For the realistic parameters of Google’s Sycamore processor, the use of state |2〉 is sufficient to suppress 92% of the decay readout error on average, where the total readout error is dominated by the background thermal excitation. We also show counter-intuitively that, the assistance of high-level states is effective in the measurement of logic 0, where there is no decay process.

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