Demonstration of High-Fidelity Gates in a Strongly Anharmonic with Long-Coherence C-Shunt Flux Qubit

Abstract

We demonstrate high-fidelity single-qubit gates on a C-shunt flux qubit that simultaneously combines a large anharmonicity ($\mathcal{A}/2\pi =848\mathrm{MHz}$) with long relaxation time ($T_1=23\mu \text{s}$). The large anharmonicity significantly suppresses leakage to higher energy levels, enabling fast and precise microwave control. Using DRAG pulses and randomized benchmarking, the qubit achieves gate fidelities exceeding 99.9\%, highlighting the capability of C-shunt flux qubits for robust and high-performance quantum operations. These results establish them as a promising platform for scalable quantum information processing.