Robust nonadiabatic holonomic gating in qutrits via inverse-engineered pulse shaping and error compensation
Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 034057 – Published 24 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/sqwc-554s
Abstract
Systematic Rabi-amplitude and detuning errors remain important sources of infidelity in high-fidelity quantum gates. We develop a robust pulse-engineering scheme for nonadiabatic 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 99.88%–99.99% for four representative single-qubit gates at and . With phenomenological decoherence at , the NOT and S gates retain fidelities of 99.72% and 99.79%, respectively, with a coherence-time crossover near . These results identify the regime in which systematic-error suppression outweighs the decoherence cost of the additional control loop.