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We study transport through multiply coupled carbon nano-tubes (quantum wires) and compute the conductances through the two wires as a function of the two gate voltages $g_1$ and $g_2$ controlling the chemical potential of the electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

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

By employing forces that depend on the internal electronic state (or spin) of an atomic ion, the Coulomb potential energy of a strongly coupled array of ions can be modified in a spin-dependent way to mimic effective quantum spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 John J. Bollinger , Joseph W. Britton , Brian C. Sawyer

Trapped-ion quantum computers are a promising platform, offering high-quality qubits with long coherence times and high-fidelity gate operations. The Quantum Charge Coupled Device (QCCD) architecture provides a scalable blueprint by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Daniel Schoenberger , Robert Wille

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

Linear strings of trapped atomic ions held in radio-frequency (rf) traps constitute one of the leading platforms for quantum simulation experiments, allowing for the investigation of interacting quantum matter. However, linear ion strings…

Trapped-ion quantum computing requires precise optical control for individual qubit manipulation. However, conventional free-space optics face challenges in alignment stability and scalability as the number of qubits increases. Integrated…

Efficiently entangling pairs of qubits is essential to fully harness the power of quantum computing. Here, we devise an exact protocol that simultaneously entangles arbitrary pairs of qubits on a trapped-ion quantum computer. The protocol…

Trapped ions have emerged as one of the highest quality platforms for the quantum simulation of interacting spin models of interest to various fields of physics. In such simulators, two effective spins can be made to interact with arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Yi Hong Teoh , Marina Drygala , Roger G. Melko , Rajibul Islam

Trapped ions excited to high-lying electronic states combine strongly coupled collective vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom with long-ranged interparticle interactions. These ingredients enable the quantum simulation of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Simon Euchner , Mathias B. M. Svendsen , Igor Lesanovsky

Doped organic semiconductors are critical to emerging device applications, including thermoelectrics, bioelectronics, and neuromorphic computing devices. It is commonly assumed that low conductivities in these materials result primarily…

Two-qubit gates are a fundamental constituent of a quantum computer and typically its most challenging operation. In a trapped-ion quantum computer, this is typically implemented with laser beams which are modulated in amplitude, frequency,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-05 Ming Li , Nhung H. Nguyen , Alaina M. Green , Jason Amini , Norbert M. Linke , Yunseong Nam

An introductory review of the linear ion trap is given, with particular regard to its use for quantum information processing. The discussion aims to bring together ideas from information theory and experimental ion trapping, to provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew M. Steane

We propose a method of simulating efficiently many-body interacting fermion lattice models in trapped ions, including highly nonlinear interactions in arbitrary spatial dimensions and for arbitrarily distant couplings. We map products of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Casanova , A. Mezzacapo , L. Lamata , E. Solano

To implement useful quantum algorithms which demonstrate quantum advantage, we must scale currently demonstrated quantum computers up significantly. Leading platforms such as trapped ions face physical challenges in including more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Pei Jiang Low , Brendan White , Crystal Senko

We propose a new scalable architecture for trapped ion quantum computing that combines optical tweezers delivering qubit state-dependent local potentials with oscillating electric fields. Since the electric field allows for long-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 M. Mazzanti , R. X. Schüssler , J. D. Arias Espinoza , Z. Wu , R. Gerritsma , A. Safavi-Naini

We consider experimentally feasible chains of trapped ions with pseudo-spin 1/2, and find models that can potentially be used to implement error-resistant quantum computation. Similar in spirit to classical neural networks, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Sibylle Braungardt , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen , Maciej Lewenstein

We investigate the feasibility of using electrons in a linear Paul trap as qubits in a future quantum computer. We discuss the necessary experimental steps to realize such a device through a concrete design proposal, including trapping,…

We propose a method to simulate spin models in trapped ions using a digital-analog approach, consisting in a suitable gate decomposition in terms of analog blocks and digital steps. In this way, we show that the quantum dynamics of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-01 I. Arrazola , J. S. Pedernales , L. Lamata , E. Solano

The long coherence times and strong Coulomb interactions afforded by trapped ion qubits have enabled realizations of the necessary primitives for quantum information processing (QIP), and indeed the highest-fidelity quantum operations in…