%0 Journal Article %J New Journal of Physics %D 2015 %T Demonstration of Robust Quantum Gate Tomography via Randomized Benchmarking %A Blake R. Johnson %A Marcus P. da Silva %A Colm A. Ryan %A Shelby Kimmel %A Jerry M. Chow %A Thomas A. Ohki %X Typical quantum gate tomography protocols struggle with a self-consistency problem: the gate operation cannot be reconstructed without knowledge of the initial state and final measurement, but such knowledge cannot be obtained without well-characterized gates. A recently proposed technique, known as randomized benchmarking tomography (RBT), sidesteps this self-consistency problem by designing experiments to be insensitive to preparation and measurement imperfections. We implement this proposal in a superconducting qubit system, using a number of experimental improvements including implementing each of the elements of the Clifford group in single `atomic' pulses and custom control hardware to enable large overhead protocols. We show a robust reconstruction of several single-qubit quantum gates, including a unitary outside the Clifford group. We demonstrate that RBT yields physical gate reconstructions that are consistent with fidelities obtained by randomized benchmarking. %B New Journal of Physics %V 17 %P 113019 %8 2015/11/05 %G eng %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06686 %N 11 %R 10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/113019