High-fidelity measurements of qubits are achieved by increasing a number of measurements taken by use of a swap operation and a readout qubit, deflating a bosonic qubit for which measurement outcomes are affected by single photon/phonon loss events, deflating a bosonic qubit enabling readout in other basis, and evolving the qubit under a Hamiltonian that couples a mode to be measured to another mode where the Hamiltonian is selected from a three wave mixing interaction, and/or a combination of these techniques.