Individual qubit addressing of rotating ion crystals in a Penning trap

ORAL

Abstract

Trapped ions boast long coherence times, and excellent gate fidelities, making them a useful platform for quantum information processing. Scaling to larger numbers of ion qubits in RF Paul traps demands great effort. Another technique for trapping ions is via a Penning trap where a 2D crystal of hundreds of ions is formed by controlling the rotation of the ions in the presence of a strong magnetic field. However, the rotation of the ion crystal makes single ion addressability a significant challenge. We propose a protocol that takes advantage of a deformable mirror to introduce AC Stark shift patterns that are static in the rotating frame of the crystal. Through numerical simulations we validate the potential of this protocol to perform high-fidelity single ion gates in traps of hundreds of ions.

*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA). AMP acknowledges funding from NSF grant number 1734006 and a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity. JJB acknowledges support from the DARPA ONISQ program and AFOSR grant FA9550-20-1-0019.

Presenters

  • Anthony M Polloreno

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

Authors

  • Anthony M Polloreno

    • University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Ana Maria Rey

    • JILA
    • JILA, NIST and Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder
    • UC Boulder/JILA
    • JILA, NIST and University of Colorado Boulder
    • JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • John J Bollinger

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder