Digital predistortion of power amplifiers for quantum computing

Power amplifiers (PA) are essential for microwave-controlled trapped-ion and semiconductor spin based quantum computers (QC). They adjust the power level of the control signal and therefore the processing time of the QC. Their nonlinearities and memory effects degrade the signal quality and, thus, the fidelity of qubit gate operations. Driving the PA with a significant input power back-off reduces nonlinear effects but is neither power-efficient nor cost-effective. To overcome this limitation, this letter augments the conventional signal generation system applied in QCs by digital predistortion (DPD) to linearize the radio frequency (RF) channel. Numerical analysis of the qubit behavior based on measured representative control signals indicates that DPD improves its fidelity.

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microwave amplifiers

nonlinear distortion

quantum computing

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621.38: Electronics, Communications Engineering

004: Computer Sciences

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Hamburg Quantencomputing

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