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Trapped-ion processors are leading candidates for scalable quantum computation. However, motional heating remains a key obstacle to fault-tolerant operation, especially when system size increases. Heating error is particularly challenging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Zixuan Huo , Yangchao Shen , Xiao Yuan , Xiao-Ming Zhang

Entangling operations are among the most important primitive gates employed in quantum computing and it is crucial to ensure high-fidelity implementations as systems are scaled up. We experimentally realize and characterize a simple scheme…

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

A major challenge for the realisation of useful universal quantum computers is achieving high fidelity two-qubit entangling gate operations. However, calibration errors can affect the quantum gate operations and limit their fidelity. To…

We demonstrate a simple pulse shaping technique designed to improve the fidelity of spin-dependent force operations commonly used to implement entangling gates in trapped-ion systems. This extension of the M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen gate can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 D. Hayes , S. M. Clark , S. Debnath , D. Hucul , I. V. Inlek , K. W. Lee , Q. Quraishi , C. Monroe

Realistic fault-tolerant quantum computing at reasonable overhead requires two-qubit gates with the highest possible fidelity. Typically, an infidelity of $\lesssim 10^{-4}$ is recommended in the literature. Focusing on the phase-sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Reinhold Blümel , Andrii Maksymov , Ming Li

Entangling gates are an essential component of quantum computers. However, generating high-fidelity gates, in a scalable manner, remains a major challenge in all quantum information processing platforms. Accordingly, improving the fidelity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Yotam Shapira , Sapir Cohen , Nitzan Akerman , Ady Stern , Roee Ozeri

We introduce the 'smooth gate', an entangling method for trapped-ion qubits where residual spin-motion entanglement errors are adiabatically eliminated by ramping the gate detuning. We demonstrate electronically controlled two-qubit gates…

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

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

Trapped ion hardware has made significant progress recently and is now one of the leading platforms for quantum computing. To construct two-qubit gates in trapped ions, experimental manipulation approaches for ion chains are becoming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Jing-Bo Wang

We demonstrate a trapped-ion entangling-gate scheme proposed by Bermudez et al. [Phys. Rev. A 85, 040302 (2012)]. Simultaneous excitation of a strong carrier and a single-sideband transition enables deterministic creation of entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 T. R. Tan , J. P Gaebler , R. Bowler , Y. Lin , J. D. Jost , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

In this work, we design and implement frequency-robust Molmer-Sorensen gates on a linear chain of trapped ions, using Gaussian amplitude modulation and a constant laser frequency. We select this frequency to balance the entanglement…

Microwave trapped-ion quantum logic gates avoid spontaneous emission as a fundamental source of decoherence. However, microwave two-qubit gates are still slower than laser-induced gates and hence more sensitive to fluctuations and noise of…

Ion trap systems are a leading platform for large scale quantum computers. Trapped ion qubit crystals are fully-connected and reconfigurable, owing to their long range Coulomb interaction that can be modulated with external optical forces.…

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

Continuously parameterized two-qubit gates are a key feature of state-of-the-art trapped-ion quantum processors as they have favorable error scalings and show distinct improvements in circuit performance over more restricted maximally…

Penning traps have been used for performing quantum simulations and sensing with hundreds of ions and provide a promising route toward scaling up trapped ion quantum platforms because of the ability to trap and control up to thousands of…

We propose the implementation of a geometric-phase gate on magnetic-field-insensitive qubits with $\hat{\sigma}^z$-dependent forces for trapped ion quantum computing. The force is exerted by two laser beams in a Raman configuration.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Aolita , K. Kim , J. Benhelm , C. F. Roos , H. Häffner

Trapped-ion systems are a leading platform for quantum computing. The M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen (MS) gate is a widely used method for implementing controlled interactions in multipartite systems. However, due to unavoidable interactions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Dharmaraj Ramachandran , Ganesh Hanchanahal , Radhika Vathsan