Pulse-efficient circuit transpilation for quantum applications on cross-resonance-based hardware

We show a pulse-efficient circuit transpilation framework for noisy quantum hardware. This is achieved by scaling cross-resonance pulses and exposing each pulse as gate to remove redundant single-qubit operations with the transpiler.Crucially, no additional calibration needed yield better results than CNOT-based transpilation. therefore enables usage of finite coherence time without requiring knowledge pulse-level details from user. As demonstration, we realize continuous family cross-resonance-based gates SU(4) leveraging Cartan's decomposition. measure benefits process tomography observe up 50% error reduction in fidelity RZZ({\theta}) arbitrary on IBM Quantum devices.We apply this applications running circuits Approximate Optimization Algorithm applied MAXCUT. For an 11 qubit non-hardware native graph, our methodology reduces overall schedule duration 52% errors 38%