Arbitrary-phase CZ gate and remote readout across spatially separated superconducting nodes
Abstract
Establishing a complete set of gates across spatially separated quantum nodes is fundamental for distributed quantum computation and communication networks. One of the approaches to do so consists of employing a superconducting device as a universal quantum node that is capable of storing and processing quantum information, and traveling microwave photons as means of communication. In this work, we realize an entangling gate across a primitive two-node superconducting circuit QED network consisting of two dilution cryostats, A and B, connected via a 30-m-long cryogenic quantum link. We perform a bidirectional photon transfer protocol, where a microwave photon emitted by the communication qubit at A acquires a conditional phase based on the state of qubit B. We vary the communication photon frequency, hence tuning the conditional phase acquired during the reflection off the remote node, effectively implementing an arbitrary-phase CZ gate. We use this entangling operation to perform single-shot readout of the qubit in node B from node A. An interesting feature of our scheme is that it does not require precise synchronization of the active node with the remote node; in particular, remote readout can be performed without any active participation by the remote node. These protocols add to the quantum communication toolbox with superconducting circuits and provide a way of realizing basic distributed quantum computing operations.
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BibTeX
@misc{kulikov2026arbitraryphase,
title = {{Arbitrary-phase CZ gate and remote readout across spatially separated superconducting nodes}},
author = {Anatoly Kulikov and Josua D. Schär and Alonso Hernández-Antón and Aleksandr Grigorev},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.05005},
eprint = {2610.05005},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05005},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Arbitrary-phase CZ gate and remote readout across spatially separated superconducting nodes
AU - Anatoly Kulikov
AU - Josua D. Schär
AU - Alonso Hernández-Antón
AU - Aleksandr Grigorev
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/04
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.05005
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05005
AB - Establishing a complete set of gates across spatially separated quantum nodes is fundamental for distributed quantum computation and communication networks. One of the approaches to do so consists of employing a superconducting device as a universal quantum node that is capable of storing and processing quantum information, and traveling microwave photons as means of communication. In this work, we realize an entangling gate across a primitive two-node superconducting circuit QED network consisting of two dilution cryostats, A and B, connected via a 30-m-long cryogenic quantum link. We perform a bidirectional photon transfer protocol, where a microwave photon emitted by the communication qubit at A acquires a conditional phase based on the state of qubit B. We vary the communication photon frequency, hence tuning the conditional phase acquired during the reflection off the remote node, effectively implementing an arbitrary-phase CZ gate. We use this entangling operation to perform single-shot readout of the qubit in node B from node A. An interesting feature of our scheme is that it does not require precise synchronization of the active node with the remote node; in particular, remote readout can be performed without any active participation by the remote node. These protocols add to the quantum communication toolbox with superconducting circuits and provide a way of realizing basic distributed quantum computing operations.
ER -