Simple implementation of high fidelity controlled-$i$SWAP gates and quantum circuit exponentiation of non-Hermitian gates

Abstract: The $i$swap gate is an entangling swapping gate where the qubits obtain a phase of $i$ if the state of the qubits is swapped. Here we present a simple implementation of the controlled-$i$swap gate. The gate can be implemented with several controls and works by applying a single flux pulse. The gate time is independent of the number of controls, and we find high fidelities for any number of controls. We discuss an implementation of the gates using superconducting circuits and present a realistic implementation proposal, where we have taken decoherence noise and fabrication errors on the superconducting chip in to account, by Monte Carlo simulating possible errors. The general idea presented in this paper is, however, not limited to such implementations. An exponentiation of quantum gates is desired in some quantum information schemes and we therefore also present a quantum circuit for probabilistic exponentiating the $i$swap gate and other non-Hermitian gates.