- Accepted Paper
Robust nonadiabatic holonomic gating in qutrits via inverse-engineered pulse shaping and error compensation
Phys. Rev. Applied - Accepted 31 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/sqwc-554s
Phys. Rev. Applied - Accepted 31 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/sqwc-554s
Systematic Rabi-amplitude and detuning errors remain important sources of infidelity in high-fidelity quantum gates. We develop a robust pulse-engineering scheme for non-adiabatic holonomic quantum computing in a three-level -type qutrit, combining inverse engineering with time-dependent perturbative analysis. Pulse shaping eliminates the leading second-order Rabi-amplitude contribution, while static detuning introduces a distinct population-mediated channel that cannot be removed within a single control loop. We therefore introduce a compensation loop that exactly cancels the dominant second-order contribution, with the residual channel further suppressed by pulse shaping. Using the logical average gate fidelity over the complete computational subspace, the optimized composite sequence reaches closed-system fidelities of – for four representative single-qubit gates at and MHz. With phenomenological decoherence at $T_1=T_2=30~\mu{\rm s}$, the NOT and S gates retain fidelities of and , respectively, with a coherence-time crossover near $0.58~\mu{\rm s}$. These results identify the regime in which systematic-error suppression outweighs the decoherence cost of the additional control loop.
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