Integrated optical multi-ion quantum logic

Karan K. Mehta (), Chi Zhang, Maciej Malinowski, Thanh-Long Nguyen, Martin Stadler and Jonathan P. Home
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Karan K. Mehta: Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich
Chi Zhang: Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich
Maciej Malinowski: Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich
Thanh-Long Nguyen: Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich
Martin Stadler: Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich
Jonathan P. Home: Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich

Nature, 2020, vol. 586, issue 7830, 533-537

Abstract: Abstract Practical and useful quantum information processing requires substantial improvements with respect to current systems, both in the error rates of basic operations and in scale. The fundamental qualities of individual trapped-ion1 qubits are promising for long-term systems2, but the optics involved in their precise control are a barrier to scaling3. Planar-fabricated optics integrated within ion-trap devices can make such systems simultaneously more robust and parallelizable, as suggested by previous work with single ions4. Here we use scalable optics co-fabricated with a surface-electrode ion trap to achieve high-fidelity multi-ion quantum logic gates, which are often the limiting elements in building up the precise, large-scale entanglement that is essential to quantum computation. Light is efficiently delivered to a trap chip in a cryogenic environment via direct fibre coupling on multiple channels, eliminating the need for beam alignment into vacuum systems and cryostats and lending robustness to vibrations and beam-pointing drifts. This allows us to perform ground-state laser cooling of ion motion and to implement gates generating two-ion entangled states with fidelities greater than 99.3(2) per cent. This work demonstrates hardware that reduces noise and drifts in sensitive quantum logic, and simultaneously offers a route to practical parallelization for high-fidelity quantum processors5. Similar devices may also find applications in atom- and ion-based quantum sensing and timekeeping6.

Date: 2020
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