Multiplexed readout of transmon qubits with Josephson bifurcation amplifiers
Vivien Schmitt, Xin Zhou, Kristinn Júlíusson, Baptiste Royer, Alexandre Blais, Patrice Bertet, D. Vion, Daniel Esteve · Physical Review A · 2014
Achieving individual qubit readout is a major challenge in the development of scalable superconducting quantum processors. We have implemented the multiplexed readout of a four transmon qubit circuit using nonlinear resonators operated as Josephson bifurcation amplifiers. We demonstrate the simultaneous measurement of Rabi oscillations of the four transmons. We find that multiplexed Josephson bifurcation is a high-fidelity readout method, the scalability of which is not limited by the need of a large-bandwidth, nearly quantum-limited amplifier as is the case with linear readout resonators.