Flux-biasing superconducting quantum processors

• US 10,700,257 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2018
• Issued: 06/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jinka, Oblesh, Abdo, Baleegh
• Primary Examiner(s): Galvin, III, Joseph M
• Application Number:
  US16/160,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20200119254A1
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 10/00 Quantum computing, i.e. information processing based on quantum-mechanical phenomena
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 60/0912 of Josephson-effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 60/12 Josephson-effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 60/805 for Josephson-effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 60/815 for Josephson-effect devices

Abstract

A flux-biasing device includes a set of magnetic flux generating members. A first magnetic flux generating member is configured to magnetically interact with a first qubit from a set of qubits of a quantum processor such that a first magnetic flux of the first member causes a first change in a first resonance frequency of the first qubit by a first frequency shift value. Each non-corresponding magnetic flux generating member of the set is well separated from qubits corresponding to other magnetic flux generating members of the set such that qubits corresponding to other members exhibit less than a threshold value of resonance frequency shift as a result of a magnetic flux of a non-corresponding member.

Claims

1. A flux-biasing device comprising:

a plurality of magnetic flux generating members (member);

a detachable platform located external to a package, the package comprising a plurality of qubits of a quantum processor, wherein the plurality of members are installed on the platform, wherein

a first member of the plurality of members is configured to magnetically interact with a first qubit in the plurality of qubits of the quantum processor such that a first magnetic flux of the first member causes a first change in a first resonance frequency of the first qubit by a first frequency shift value, and

each non-corresponding member of the plurality of members is at least at a threshold distance from qubits corresponding to other members of the plurality of members such that qubits corresponding to other members exhibit less than a threshold value of resonance frequency shift as a result of a magnetic flux of a non-corresponding member.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a housing encasing the package;

a fastening mechanism to detachably fasten the platform to a removable cover of the housing, wherein the fastening mechanism disposes the first member within an influence distance of the first qubit, wherein the influence distance causes the first frequency shift value to be greater than the threshold value.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the first member is separated from the first qubit by a first gap, the gap being occupied by at least one from a group comprising (i) partial vacuum and (ii) a solid.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a wire of a superconducting material, the wire being formed into a coil around a conductive core, the coiled wire and the core together forming the first member, the first member being configured to produce the first magnetic flux when supplied with a direct current.

5. The device of claim 4, further comprising:

an insulating layer covering the wire; and

a metallic contact, wherein the contact forms an electrical connection between the wire and at least one from a group comprising (i) a layer of the platform and (ii) a substrate.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the first member produces the first magnetic flux while operating in a range of temperatures between 4 degrees Kelvin and 0.0001 degrees Kelvin.

7. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an orientation of the first member relative to the first qubit, wherein the orientation comprises positioning the first member with a cylindrical axis of the first member being orthogonal to a plane of fabrication of the first qubit, with the first member is situated below the plane of fabrication.

8. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an orientation of the first member relative to the first qubit, wherein the orientation comprises positioning the first member with a cylindrical axis of the first member being orthogonal to a plane of fabrication of the first qubit, with the first member is situated above the plane of fabrication.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an orientation of the first member relative to the first qubit, wherein the orientation comprises positioning the first member with a cylindrical axis of the first member being at a non-orthogonal angle to a plane of fabrication of the first qubit, with the first member is situated below the plane of fabrication.

10. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a one-to-one correspondence between the first member and the first qubit.

11. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an n-to-one correspondence between more than one members of the plurality of members and the first qubit.

12. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a second member of the plurality of members is configured to magnetically interact with the second qubit in the plurality of qubits of the quantum processor such that a second magnetic flux of the second member causes a second change in a second resonance frequency of the second qubit by a second frequency shift value, and wherein

the second member is located at such a distant from the first qubit such that the first resonance frequency of the first qubit remains stable within a tolerance regardless of the second member.

13. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a pair of connectors coupled to the first member, wherein changing a value of a direct current passing through the pair of connectors causes a corresponding change in the first frequency shift value of the first qubit.

14. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a first number of coil turns in the first member;

a second number of coil turns in a second member of the plurality of members.

15. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of members is positioned outside a housing that contains the plurality of qubits, and wherein the plurality of members are removable via one cover of the housing.

16. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of members is thermalized to a dilution fridge stage through a housing that contains the plurality of qubits.

17. The device of claim 1, wherein a cylindrical axis of each member is aligned with a center of a superconducting loop of a corresponding qubit from the plurality of qubits.

18. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a filtering circuit fabricated in conjunction with the plurality of members, wherein the filtering circuit filters an electrical noise carried by the plurality of members.