All-Microwave Multiqubit Gates
Abstract
Implementing high-fidelity multiqubit gates is critical for reducing circuit depth in near-term quantum processors and fault-tolerant architectures. However, realizing multiqubit interactions and entanglement remains a critical challenge that limits the implementation of multiqubit gates. Here we propose an all-microwave scheme to realize single-step multiqubit gates incorporating n control and m target qubits, tailored for frequency-tunable superconducting transmon networks. By leveraging cross-resonance (CR) drives, this approach induces effective two-body ZX interactions that are significantly stronger than those achieved in conventional resonant regimes, circumventing the need for tunable couplers. The system's effective Hamiltonian is analytically derived using both quad frame rotation and rigorous block diagonalization. These combined theoretical methods facilitate the identification of optimal parameter regimes that simultaneously enhance desired target couplings and suppress parasitic higher-order terms, such as ZXX interactions. Through numerical simulations and gradient-based pulse-shape optimization, we demonstrate three-qubit gates achieving fidelities exceeding 99.9% within a 60 ns gate duration. Furthermore, we evaluate the fundamental scalability of this framework by extending the optimization to a five-qubit CXXXX architecture, confirming the physical viability of the multi-target driving scheme. Because these multiqubit operations naturally emulate stabilizer measurements, this architecture provides a hardware-efficient strategy for reducing the circuit depth of stabilizer-type operations by replacing sequential two-qubit gate decompositions with single-step multiqubit gates.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026allmicrowave,
title = {{All-Microwave Multiqubit Gates}},
author = {Guanqi Wang and Yao Song and Peng-Bo Li and Xiu-Hao Deng},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.39834},
eprint = {2609.39834},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39834},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - All-Microwave Multiqubit Gates
AU - Guanqi Wang
AU - Yao Song
AU - Peng-Bo Li
AU - Xiu-Hao Deng
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.39834
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.39834
AB - Implementing high-fidelity multiqubit gates is critical for reducing circuit depth in near-term quantum processors and fault-tolerant architectures. However, realizing multiqubit interactions and entanglement remains a critical challenge that limits the implementation of multiqubit gates. Here we propose an all-microwave scheme to realize single-step multiqubit gates incorporating n control and m target qubits, tailored for frequency-tunable superconducting transmon networks. By leveraging cross-resonance (CR) drives, this approach induces effective two-body ZX interactions that are significantly stronger than those achieved in conventional resonant regimes, circumventing the need for tunable couplers. The system's effective Hamiltonian is analytically derived using both quad frame rotation and rigorous block diagonalization. These combined theoretical methods facilitate the identification of optimal parameter regimes that simultaneously enhance desired target couplings and suppress parasitic higher-order terms, such as ZXX interactions. Through numerical simulations and gradient-based pulse-shape optimization, we demonstrate three-qubit gates achieving fidelities exceeding 99.9% within a 60 ns gate duration. Furthermore, we evaluate the fundamental scalability of this framework by extending the optimization to a five-qubit CXXXX architecture, confirming the physical viability of the multi-target driving scheme. Because these multiqubit operations naturally emulate stabilizer measurements, this architecture provides a hardware-efficient strategy for reducing the circuit depth of stabilizer-type operations by replacing sequential two-qubit gate decompositions with single-step multiqubit gates.
ER -