High-Fidelity Single-Qubit Gates on Neutral Atoms in a Two-Dimensional Magic-Intensity Optical Dipole Trap Array.

Phys Rev Lett

State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences-Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430071, China.

Published: December 2018

AI Article Synopsis

  • The study addresses the limitations of traditional optical dipole trap (ODT) arrays used for assembling neutral-atom qubits in quantum computers, which suffer from significant errors due to scalar differential light shifts (DLS).
  • A new method called magic-intensity optical dipole trap (MI-ODT) is introduced, which compensates for DLS effects and improves the performance of microwave-driven gates.
  • The research shows that the MI-ODT arrays can achieve a much lower average error rate in gate operations, highlighting their potential for creating scalable quantum computing systems with neutral atoms.

Article Abstract

As a conventional approach, optical dipole trap (ODT) arrays with linear polarization have been widely used to assemble neutral-atom qubits for building a quantum computer. However, due to the inherent scalar differential light shifts (DLS) of qubit states induced by trapping fields, the microwave-driven gates acting on single qubits suffer from errors on the order of 10^{-3}. Here, we construct a DLS compensated ODT array based upon a recently developed magic-intensity trapping technique. In such a magic-intensity optical dipole trap (MI-ODT) array, the detrimental effects of DLS are efficiently mitigated so that the performance of global microwave-driven Clifford gates is significantly improved. Experimentally, we achieve an average error of (4.7±1.1)×10^{-5} per global gate, which is characterized by randomized benchmarking in a 4×4 MI-ODT array. Moreover, we experimentally study the correlation between the coherence time and gate errors in a single MI-ODT with an optimum error per gate of (3.0±0.7)×10^{-5}. Our demonstration shows that MI-ODT array is a versatile platform for building scalable quantum computers with neutral atoms.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.240501DOI Listing

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