Paper: Feedback-Receiver-Based Compensation of Nonlinearities in Trapped Ion Qubit Gate Signaling
Moritz Baecker · Marvin Jaeger · Bartosz Tegowski · Georg F. Riemschneider · Alexander Koelpin
IEEE · 2026
This paper presents an analog microwave frontend designed to downconvert and feed back the control signal for trapped ion qubits, which are frequency-multiplexed by the magnetic gradient induced coupling (MAGIC) principle. Shorter gate durations require a higher excitation signal power, increasing distortion caused by nonlinear components. The proposed feedback receiver serves the purpose of coupling out a portion of the generated qubit control signal to feed it back into the signal generation hardware. This enables closed-loop signal processing techniques to compensate for nonlinearities in signal generation, thus improving the idle fidelity of untargeted qubits. The characterization of a manufactured prototype is performed, followed by an active cancellation of spurious tones based on the downconverted qubit control signal to demonstrate the capability for qubit fidelity improvement. Keywords—Fidelity, magnetic gradient induced coupling (MAGIC), microwave frontend, receivers, quantum computing, qubit.
IEEE (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1109/GeMiC71240.2026.11516472
