High-fidelity control and entanglement of Rydberg atom qubits
Abstract
Individual neutral atoms excited to Rydberg states are a promising platform for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. However, experimental progress to date has been limited by short coherence times and relatively low gate fidelities associated with such Rydberg excitations. We report progress towards high-fidelity quantum control of Rydberg atom qubits. Enabled by a reduction in laser phase noise, our approach yields a significant improvement in coherence properties of individual qubits. We further show that this high-fidelity control extends to the multi-particle case by preparing a two-atom entangled state with a fidelity exceeding 0.97(3), and extending its lifetime with a two-atom dynamical decoupling protocol. These advances open up new prospects for scalable quantum simulation and quantum computation with neutral atoms.
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@article{arxiv.1806.04682,
title = {High-fidelity control and entanglement of Rydberg atom qubits},
author = {Harry Levine and Alexander Keesling and Ahmed Omran and Hannes Bernien and Sylvain Schwartz and Alexander S. Zibrov and Manuel Endres and Markus Greiner and Vladan Vuletić and Mikhail D. Lukin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.04682},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures