• Accepted Paper

Fast, high-fidelity erasure detection of dual-rail qubits with symmetrically coupled readout

Jimmy Shih-Chun Hung, Arbel Haim, Mouktik Raha, Gihwan Kim, Ziwen Huang, Ming-Han Chou, Mitch D’Ewart, Erik Davis, Anurag Mishra, Patricio Arrangoiz Arriola, Amirhossein Khalajhedayati, David Hover, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Aashish A. Clerk, Alex Retzker, Harry Levine, and Oskar Painter

Phys. Rev. X - Accepted 5 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/54jp-hwdd

Abstract

Erasure qubits are a promising platform for implementing hardware-efficient quantum error correction. Realizing the error-correction advantages of this encoding requires frequent mid-circuit erasure checks that are fast, high-fidelity, and scalable. Here, we realize erasure detection with a hardware-efficient circuit consisting of a single readout resonator dispersively and symmetrically coupled to both transmons of a dual-rail qubit. We use this circuit to demonstrate single-shot erasure detection in 384 ns with minimal impact on the dual-rail logical manifold, achieving a residual error per check of 6.0(2)×10−4, with only 8(3)×10−5 induced dephasing per check, and an erasure error per check of 2.54(1)×10−2. The high degree of matched dispersive readout coupling (χ-matching) within the dual-rail qubit code space also allows us to realize a new modality: time-continuous erasure detection performed in parallel with single-qubit gates. Here we achieve a median 7.2×10−5 error per gate with <1×10−5 error induced by erasure detection. This demonstrates a reduction in erasure detection overhead as well as a crucial ingredient for soft information quantum error correction. Together, these results establish symmetrically coupled dispersive readout as a fast, hardware-efficient, and scalable component for erasure-based quantum error correction using transmon dual-rail qubits.

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