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Single-qubit gates with errors at the $10^{-7}$ level

Quantum Physics 2025-06-16 v3

Abstract

We report the achievement of single-qubit gates with sub-part-per-million error rates, in a trapped-ion 43^{43}Ca+^{+} hyperfine clock qubit. We explore the speed/fidelity trade-off for gate times 4.4tg35 μ4.4\leq t_{g}\leq35~\mus, and benchmark a minimum error per Clifford gate of 1.5(4)×1071.5(4) \times 10^{-7}. Calibration errors are suppressed to <108< 10^{-8}, leaving qubit decoherence (T270T_{2}\approx 70 s), leakage, and measurement as the dominant error contributions. The ion is held above a microfabricated surface-electrode trap which incorporates a chip-integrated microwave resonator for electronic qubit control; the trap is operated at room temperature without magnetic shielding.

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@article{arxiv.2412.04421,
  title  = {Single-qubit gates with errors at the $10^{-7}$ level},
  author = {M. C. Smith and A. D. Leu and K. Miyanishi and M. F. Gely and D. M. Lucas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04421},
  year   = {2025}
}
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