Single qubit manipulation in a microfabricated surface electrode ion trap

We trap individual ^171 Yb ^+ ions in a surface trap microfabricated on a silicon substrate, and demonstrate a complete set of high fidelity single qubit operations for the hyperfine qubit. Trapping times exceeding 20 min without laser cooling, and heating rates as low as 0.8 quanta ms ^−1 , indicat...

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Main Authors: Emily Mount, So-Young Baek, Matthew Blain, Daniel Stick, Daniel Gaultney, Stephen Crain, Rachel Noek, Taehyun Kim, Peter Maunz, Jungsang Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093018
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author Emily Mount
So-Young Baek
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Stephen Crain
Rachel Noek
Taehyun Kim
Peter Maunz
Jungsang Kim
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description We trap individual ^171 Yb ^+ ions in a surface trap microfabricated on a silicon substrate, and demonstrate a complete set of high fidelity single qubit operations for the hyperfine qubit. Trapping times exceeding 20 min without laser cooling, and heating rates as low as 0.8 quanta ms ^−1 , indicate stable trapping conditions in these microtraps. A coherence time of more than 1 s, high fidelity qubit state detection and single qubit rotations are demonstrated. The observation of low heating rates and demonstration of high quality single qubit gates at room temperature are critical steps toward scalable quantum information processing in microfabricated surface traps.
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spelling doaj.art-470bf742a23e4f7d99fccd273dc6ec002023-08-08T11:27:35ZengIOP PublishingNew Journal of Physics1367-26302013-01-0115909301810.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093018Single qubit manipulation in a microfabricated surface electrode ion trapEmily Mount0So-Young Baek1Matthew Blain2Daniel Stick3Daniel Gaultney4Stephen Crain5Rachel Noek6Taehyun Kim7Peter Maunz8Jungsang Kim9Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USASandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USASandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAFitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University , Durham, NC, USAWe trap individual ^171 Yb ^+ ions in a surface trap microfabricated on a silicon substrate, and demonstrate a complete set of high fidelity single qubit operations for the hyperfine qubit. Trapping times exceeding 20 min without laser cooling, and heating rates as low as 0.8 quanta ms ^−1 , indicate stable trapping conditions in these microtraps. A coherence time of more than 1 s, high fidelity qubit state detection and single qubit rotations are demonstrated. The observation of low heating rates and demonstration of high quality single qubit gates at room temperature are critical steps toward scalable quantum information processing in microfabricated surface traps.https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093018
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New Journal of Physics
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url https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093018
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