- Accepted Paper
High-speed gates in Kerr-cat-state qubits via fast-forward scaling
Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 24 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6k22-99z2
Phys. Rev. A - Accepted 24 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6k22-99z2
Kerr parametric oscillators can encode Kerr-cat qubits, whose biased-noise nature can reduce the hardware overhead required for fault-tolerant quantum computation. In a recently proposed -gate scheme for Kerr-cat qubits, a tunable coupler must be displaced while avoiding nonadiabatic excitation. To address this challenge, we propose and theoretically analyze a protocol that applies fast-forward scaling to the coupler displacement. The protocol suppresses nonadiabatic excitation of the coupler and enables high speed gates.
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