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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 8: QI Poster I (joint session QI/Q)

Q 8.49: Poster

Monday, March 6, 2023, 16:30–19:00, Empore Lichthof

Next generation platform for implementing fast gates in ion trap quantum computation — •Donovan Webb, Sebastian Saner, Oana Bazavan, Mariella Minder, and Christopher Ballance — University of Oxford

Scalable trapped-ion quantum computation relies on the development of high-fidelity fast entangling gates in a many ion crystal. Conventional geometric phase gates either suffer from scattering errors or off-resonant carrier excitations. A potential route to achieve fast entanglement is creating a standing wave which can suppress the unwanted carrier coupling [Mundt 2003].

We present the roadmap to our next-generation platform tailored for fast gates in the ~1μs regime where gate speeds become comparable to the secular trap frequency. The quadrupole transitions between S1/2 and D5/2 levels in Calcium 40 will be driven to perform Molmer-Sorenson gates with a standing wave rather than a typical travelling wave. The off-resonant carrier excitation may be strongly suppressed by placing ions at the nodes of the optical lattice. This new platform has scope for a multi-ion chain and a corresponding array of optical lattices which each address a single ion. The lattice array is created by a set of counter-propagating beams which are tightly focused by a symmetric setup of high-NA lenses. Control of the optical phase at the ion site will be achieved by actively stabilising the counter-propagating beam interferometer and feedbacking on the ion signal.