High-fidelity quantum gates are essential for scalable quantum computation. However, at short durations, short-timescale waveform distortions break the time-reflection symmetry of control pulses, preventing the precise closure of cyclic evolution. This mechanism renders conventional symmetric protocols intrinsically overconstrained. Conventional strategies typically rely on smoothing the pulse envelopes or embedding the interaction pulse within a longer qubit pulse to bypass short-timescale distortions, which inevitably leads to a persistent speed-fidelity trade-off. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a cyclic control strategy based on parameter-space expansion, which restores controllability by incorporating an additional degree of freedom. We experimentally demonstrate this approach in a superconducting controlled-z gate, achieving robust suppression of coherent errors without increasing gate duration, reducing the average coherent error from 0.27% to 0.12% across multiple two-qubit gates, as validated by cross-entropy benchmarking. Our results establish a general route to fast, high-fidelity cyclic quantum gates beyond the conventional speed-fidelity trade-off.

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• Quantum benchmarking
• Quantum computation
• Quantum control
• Quantum gates
• Superconducting qubits