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Parallel processing of information plays a critical role in accelerating computation. This includes quantum computers, where parallel processing of quantum information will play a critical role in practical quantum advantage. Here, we…

Micromotion in radio-frequency ion traps is generally considered detrimental for quantum logic gates, and is typically minimized in state-of-the-art experiments. However, as a deterministic effect, it can be incorporated into quantum…

Qubits based on ions trapped in linear radio-frequency traps form a successful platform for quantum computing, due to their high fidelity of operations, all-to-all connectivity and degree of local control. In principle there is no…

A central challenge in developing practical quantum processors is maintaining low control complexity while scaling to large numbers of qubits. Trapped-ion systems excel in small-scale operations and support rapid qubit scaling via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Xueying Mai , Liyun Zhang , Qinyang Yu , Junhua Zhang , Yao Lu

RF-induced micromotion in trapped ion systems is typically minimised or circumvented to avoid off-resonant couplings for adiabatic processes such as multi-ion gate operations. Non-adiabatic entangling gates (so-called `fast gates') do not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Alexander K. Ratcliffe , Lachlan M. Oberg , Joseph J. Hope

Building blocks of quantum computers have been demonstrated in small to intermediate-scale systems. As one of the leading platforms, the trapped ion system has attracted wide attention. A significant challenge in this system is to combine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Y. -K. Wu , L. -M. Duan

We present an entangling gate scheme for trapped-ion chains that achieves high-fidelity operations with excited motional states despite multiple error sources. Our approach incorporates all relevant motional modes and exhibits enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Modesto Orozco-Ruiz , Wasim Rehman , Florian Mintert

Entangling interactions between distant qubits can be mediated via an additional degree of freedom. In conventional trapped-ion schemes, realizing a well-defined, coherent gate typically requires spectrally addressing a specific bus mode.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Modesto Orozco-Ruiz , Florian Mintert

Trapped ions are a promising tool for building a large-scale quantum computer. However, the number of required radiation fields for the realisation of quantum gates in any proposed ion-based architecture scales with the number of ions…

The prevalent approach to executing quantum algorithms on quantum computers is to break-down the algorithms to a concatenation of universal gates, typically single and two-qubit gates. However such a decomposition results in long gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Yotam Shapira , Ravid Shaniv , Tom Manovitz , Nitzan Akerman , Lee Peleg , Lior Gazit , Roee Ozeri , Ady Stern

Constructing a large scale ion trap quantum processor will require entangling gate operations that are robust in the presence of noise and experimental imperfection. We experimentally demonstrate how a new type of M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen gate…

Quantum computing is currently limited by the cost of two-qubit entangling operations. In order to scale up quantum processors and achieve a quantum advantage, it is crucial to economize on the power requirement of two-qubit gates, make…

Fast entangling gate operations are a fundamental prerequisite for quantum simulation and computation. We propose an entangling scheme for arbitrary pairs of ions in a linear crystal, harnessing the high electric polarizability of highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Han Bao , Jonas Vogel , Ulrich Poschinger , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

A crucial building block for quantum information processing with trapped ions is a controlled-NOT quantum gate. In this paper, two different sequences of laser pulses implementing such a gate operation are analyzed using quantum process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-15 M. Riebe , K. Kim , P. Schindler , T. Monz , P. O. Schmidt , T. K. Koerber , W. Haensel , H. Haeffner , C. F. Roos , R. Blatt

The trapped-ion system has been a leading platform for practical quantum computation and quantum simulation since the first scheme of a quantum gate was proposed by Cirac and Zoller in 1995. Quantum gates with trapped ions have shown the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Zhengyang Cai , Chunyang Luan , Lingfeng Ou , Hengchao Tu , Zihan Yin , Jing-Ning Zhang , Kihwan Kim

We propose a new protocol to implement ultra-fast two-qubit phase gates with trapped ions using spin-dependent kicks induced by resonant transitions. By only optimizing the allocation of the arrival times in a pulse train sequence the gate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 E. Torrontegui , D. Heinrich , M. I. Hussain , R. Blatt , J. J. García-Ripoll

We propose a scalable design of entangling quantum gates for large ion crystals with the following desirable features: 1) The gate design is universal and applicable for large ion crystals of arbitrary sizes; 2) The gate has no speed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 L. -M. Duan

There are several known schemes for entangling trapped ion quantum bits for large-scale quantum computation. Most are based on an interaction between the ions and external optical fields, coupling internal qubit states of trapped-ions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 P J Lee , K-A Brickman , L Deslauriers , P C Haljan , L-M Duan , C Monroe

An approach is proposed to implement the universal quantum gates between the ions confined individually in the separated traps. Instead of the typical adiabatic operations, performed for manipulating the ion-ion coupling, here the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-28 Miao Zhang , L. F. Wei

We demonstrate high fidelity entangling quantum gates within a chain of five trapped ion qubits by optimally shaping optical fields that couple to multiple collective modes of motion. We individually address qubits with segmented optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 T. Choi , S. Debnath , T. A. Manning , C. Figgatt , Z. -X. Gong , L. -M. Duan , C. Monroe