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Oscillating magnetic fields and field gradients can be used to implement single-qubit rotations and entangling multi-qubit quantum gates for trapped-ion quantum information processing (QIP). With fields generated by currents in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-26 C. Ospelkaus , C. E. Langer , J. M. Amini , K. R. Brown , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

We describe a scalable experimental protocol for obtaining estimates of the error rate of individual quantum computational gates. This protocol, in which random Clifford gates are interleaved between a gate of interest, provides a bounded…

We introduce a novel framework for implementing error-correction in constrained systems. The main idea of our scheme, called Quantized-Constraint Concatenation (QCC), is to employ a process of embedding the codewords of an error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Dor Elimelech , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

As quantum processors grow, new performance benchmarks are required to capture the full quality of the devices at scale. While quantum volume is an excellent benchmark, it focuses on the highest quality subset of the device and so is unable…

We use electronic microwave control methods to implement addressed single-qubit gates with high speed and fidelity, for $^{43}\text{Ca}^{+}$ hyperfine "atomic clock" qubits in a cryogenic (100K) surface trap. For a single qubit, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-21 A. D. Leu , M. F. Gely , M. A. Weber , M. C. Smith , D. P. Nadlinger , D. M. Lucas

With today's quantum processors venturing into regimes beyond the capabilities of classical devices [1-3], we face the challenge to verify that these devices perform as intended, even when we cannot check their results on classical…

We experimentally study the real-time susceptibility of trapped-ion quantum systems to small doses of ionizing radiation. We expose an ion-trap apparatus to a variety of $\alpha$, $\beta$, and $\gamma$ sources and measure the resulting…

Quantum gates in experiment are inherently prone to errors that need to be characterized before they can be corrected. Full characterization via quantum process tomography is impractical and often unnecessary. For most practical purposes,…

Contemporary quantum computers encode and process quantum information in binary qubits (d = 2). However, many architectures include higher energy levels that are left as unused computational resources. We demonstrate a superconducting…

Quantum signal processing (QSP), which enables systematic polynomial transformations on quantum data through sequences of qubit rotations, has emerged as a fundamental building block for quantum algorithms and data re-uploading quantum…

The performance of a quantum information processor depends on the precise control of phases introduced into the system during quantum gate operations. As the number of operations increases with the complexity of a computation, the phases of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-06 I. V. Inlek , G. Vittorini , D. Hucul , C. Crocker , C. Monroe

Ion-trap quantum computers offer a large number of possible qubit couplings, each of which requires individual calibration and can be misconfigured. To enhance the duty cycle of an ion trap, we develop a strategy that diagnoses individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Andrii O. Maksymov , Jason Nguyen , Vandiver Chaplin , Yunseong Nam , Igor L. Markov

A novel two-qubit entangling gate for trapped-ion quantum processors is proposed theoretically and demonstrated experimentally. During the gate, double-dressed quantum states are created by applying a phase-modulated continuous driving…

This paper discusses ways to implement two-qubit gate operations for quantum computing with cold trapped ions within one step. The proposed scheme is widely robust against parameter fluctuations and its simplicity might help to increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Almut Beige

We propose a scheme to perform basic gates of quantum computing and prepare entangled states in a system with cold trapped ions located in a single mode optical cavity. General quantum computing can be made with both motional state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mang Feng , Xiaoguang Wang

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

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

With a 9Be+ trapped-ion hyperfine-states qubit, we demonstrate an error probability per randomized single-qubit gate of 2.0(2) x 10^-5, below the threshold estimate of 10^-4 commonly considered sufficient for fault-tolerant quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. R. Brown , A. C. Wilson , Y. Colombe , C. Ospelkaus , A. M. Meier , E. Knill , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

Continuous-variable quantum computing utilizes continuous parameters of a quantum system to encode information, promising efficient solutions to complex problems. Trapped-ion systems provide a robust platform with long coherence times and…

Measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) represents a powerful and flexible framework for quantum information processing, based on the notion of entangled quantum states as computational resources. The most prominent application is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 B. P. Lanyon , P. Jurcevic , M. Zwerger , C. Hempel , E. A. Martinez , W. Dür , H. J. Briegel , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos