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The electromagnetic manipulation of isolated atoms has led to many advances in physics, from laser cooling and Bose-Einstein condensation of cold gases to the precise quantum control of individual atomic ion. Work on miniaturizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 D. Stick , W. K. Hensinger , S. Olmschenk , M. J. Madsen , K. Schwab , C. Monroe

Many of the challenges of scaling quantum computer hardware lie at the interface between the qubits and the classical control signals used to manipulate them. Modular ion trap quantum computer architectures address scalability by…

A leading approach to implementing small-scale quantum computers has been to use laser beams, focused to micron spot sizes, to address and entangle trapped ions in a linear crystal. Here we propose a method to implement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 M. C. Smith , A. D. Leu , M. F. Gely , D. M. Lucas

Quantum information processing systems rely on a broad range of microwave technologies and have spurred development of microwave devices and methods in new operating regimes. Here we review the use of microwave signals and systems in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Joseph C. Bardin , Daniel H. Slichter , David J. Reilly

Recent advances of quantum technologies rely on precise control and integration of quantum objects, and technological breakthrough is anticipated for further scaling up to realize practical applications. Trapped-ion quantum technology is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Alto Osada , Koichiro Miyanishi

In this tutorial we review physical implementation of quantum computing using a system of cold trapped ions. We discuss systematically all the aspects for making the implementation possible. Firstly, we go through the loading and confining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Marek Sasura , Vladimir Buzek

Ultracold trapped atomic ions excited into highly energetic Rydberg states constitute a promising platform for scalable quantum information processing. Elementary building blocks for such tasks are high-fidelity and sufficiently fast…

Trapped atomic ions are among the most advanced platforms for quantum simulation, computation, and metrology, offering long coherence times and precise, individual control over both internal and motional degrees of freedom. In this review,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Guido Pagano , Wojciech Adamczyk , Visal So

Spectral crowding of collective motional modes limits the fidelity of entangling interactions in trapped-ion quantum processors by inducing off-resonant coupling to spectator modes. We introduce a geometric-phase entangling interaction…

Quantum mechanics dominates various effects in modern research from miniaturizing electronics, up to potentially ruling solid-state physics, quantum chemistry and biology. To study these effects experimental quantum systems may provide the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Frederick Hakelberg , Philip Kiefer , Matthias Wittemer , Ulrich Warring , Tobias Schaetz

Tests of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale require extreme control over mechanical motion and its decoherence. Quantum control of mechanical motion has been achieved by engineering the radiation-pressure coupling between a…

Individual trapped atomic qubits represent one of the most promising technologies to scale quantum computers, owing to their negligible idle errors and the ability to implement a full set of reconfigurable gate operations via focused…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. Cetina , L. N. Egan , C. A. Noel , M. L. Goldman , A. R. Risinger , D. Zhu , D. Biswas , C. Monroe

Entanglement generation can be robust against noise in approaches that deliberately incorporate dissipation into the system dynamics. The presence of additional dissipation channels may, however, limit fidelity and speed of the process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Karl P. Horn , Florentin Reiter , Yiheng Lin , Dietrich Leibfried , Christiane P. Koch

We present a qutrit quantum computer design using trapped ions in the presence of a magnetic field gradient. The magnetic field gradient induces a "spin-spin" type coupling, similar to the J-coupling observed in molecules, between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. McHugh , J. Twamley

Two-qubit logical gates are proposed on the basis of two atoms trapped in a cavity setup. Losses in the interaction by spontaneous transitions are efficiently suppressed by employing adiabatic transitions and the Zeno effect. Dynamical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiannis Pachos , Herbert Walther

We investigate theoretically the speed limit of quantum gate operations for ion trap quantum information processors. The proposed methods use laser pulses for quantum gates which entangle the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Steane , C. F. Roos , D. Stevens , A. Mundt , D. Leibfried , F. Schmidt-Kaler , R. Blatt

Conventional information processors freely convert information between different physical carriers to process, store, or transmit information. It seems plausible that quantum information will also be held by different physical carriers in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Yiheng Lin , David R. Leibrandt , Dietrich Leibfried , Chin-wen Chou

We report the realization of an elementary quantum processor based on a linear crystal of trapped ions. Each ion serves as a quantum bit (qubit) to store the quantum information in long lived electronic states. We present the realization of…

We study the dynamics of phonon-mediated qubit-qubit interactions between trapped ions in the presence of an ultracold atomic gas. By deriving and solving a master equation to describe the combined system, we show that the presence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Lorenzo Oghittu , Arghavan Safavi-Naini , Antonio Negretti , Rene Gerritsma

The notion of universal quantum computation can be generalized to multi-level qudits, which offer advantages in resource usage and algorithmic efficiencies. Trapped ions, which are pristine and well-controlled quantum systems, offer an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Pei Jiang Low , Brendan M. White , Andrew A. Cox , Matthew L. Day , Crystal Senko