Double-Bracket Algorithmic Cooling with Multi-Color Drives on Superconducting Qubits

ORAL

Abstract

Resetting a qubit with arbitrarily high fidelity remains a central challenge for scalable quantum computing. Algorithmic cooling offers an alternative by redistributing entropy through unitary operations. Here, we introduce and experimentally implement Double-Bracket Algorithmic Cooling (DBAC) - a unitary reset protocol that suppresses quantum coherence of pure states by simulating quantum imaginary-time evolution through recursive unitary synthesis. DBAC employs density-matrix exponentiation as a subroutine, making it a concrete realization of a dynamic quantum algorithm that processes information encoded in copies of the input state. Implemented on a superconducting qubit processor using native ZZ interactions, DBAC performs state-independent, measurement-free cooling, extending algorithmic cooling from entropy redistribution to coherence suppression. These preliminary results suggest that DBAC could provide a coherence-preserving primitive for on-demand qubit reset and point toward the potential of dynamic quantum algorithms for foundational operations in quantum thermodynamics.

*M.B. acknowledges support from EPSRC QT Fellowship grant EP/W027992/1, and EP/Z53318X/1. P.L. acknowledges support from EP/N015118/1, and EP/T001062/1. KG, MG and NN are supported by the start-up grant of the Nanyang Assistant Professorship, and the Ministry of Education, Singapore under its Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RT1/23). Additionally, KG and MG acknowledge funding by the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Nanyang Technological University.

Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00302#

Presenters

  • Mohammed Alghadeer

    • University of Oxford

Authors

  • Mohammed Alghadeer

    • University of Oxford
  • Khanh Uyen Giang

    • Nanyang Technological University
  • Shuxiang Cao

    • University of Oxford
  • Simone D Fasciati

    • University of Oxford
  • Michele Piscitelli

    • University of Oxford
  • Nelly Ng

    • Nanyang Technological University
  • Peter Leek

    • University of Oxford
  • Marek Gluza

    • Nanyang Technological University
  • Mustafa Bakr

    • University of Oxford