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Exploring the Pulse-Level Programming of Superconducting Qubits

Exploring the Pulse-Level Programming of Superconducting Qubits

Abstract TBD

Presenter: Kristine Rezai, IQM

Agenda:

Time (Eastern) Description
1:00 – 1:15 Introduction to the tutorial: goals, schedule, set attendees up with the appropriate Jupyter notebooks and access to IQM Resonance cloud platform.
1:15 – 1:30 Introduction to quantum circuits and quantum compilers. Discussion of what happens in the back end to translate a quantum circuit into pulse-level instructions.
1:30 – 1:40 Walk through an example problem of a GHz state preparation. Take a look at how this looks as a series of pulse shapes and pulse instructions.
1:40 – 1:55 Introduction to the pulse-level library Pulla, discussion what it is and how to access and use it.
1:55 – 2:15 Hands-on example of using the pulse-level library to define a custom implementation of a quantum gate and compare the results with a more standard gate implementation. Allow free time for attendees to explore using different pulse shapes. This hands-on example and the following will be done on the IQM Resonance platform to allow attendees access to run on quantum hardware.
2:15 – 2:35 Hands-on activity to use pulse-level access to control and study individual qubit dynamics. Example circuits that attendees will implement include dynamical decoupling, measuring T1 times of individual qubits, etc.
2:35 – 2:50 Discussion on the importance of pulse-level access in quantum error mitigation and quantum error suppression. This section will have some lecture, discussion, and hands-on components.
2:50 – 3:05 Introduction to superconducting qubits.
3:05 – 3:20 Introduction to IQM’s star topology for superconducting qubits.
3:20 – 3:50 Hands-on activity exploring the qubit-resonator dynamics in the star topology system. Walk through examples include populating the central resonator to higher energy states as well as applying Jaynes-Cummings gate to system. Part of this section will be walking through example problems on IQM’s star systems available on the cloud and the other part will allow participants to freely explore and play around with these systems.
3:50 – 4:00 Wrap up, takeaways, and next steps.

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Date

Jan 22 2026

Time

(Eastern Time)
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Zoom
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Organizer

Michael Sandoval
Email
[email protected]
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