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Non-commuting dynamics in light-ion-interactions in an ion trap system

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Abstract

Laser-driven interactions are ubiquitous in trapped-ion systems for quantum computing or simulation. As the laser power is increased to strengthen the interaction, non-commuting terms that could originally be ignored start having a significant effect on the dynamics. Here we present two methods to mitigate the effect of those terms.

Firstly, we control the phase of the laser field at the ion position using a free-space phase-stable standing wave and show how to coherently suppress a non-computing error source in the conventional Mølmer-Sørensen (MS) interaction. This approach allows us to break the fundamental speed limit in standard MS gates. Secondly, we present our experimental work on utilising non-commuting terms to create two-qubit entanglement suitable for optical, metastable, and ground state qubit encodings [1].

[1] Bazavan, Saner et al., arXiv:2207.11193, 2022

Presenters

  • Oana Bazavan

    University of Oxford

Authors

  • Oana Bazavan

    University of Oxford

  • Sebastian Saner

    University of Oxford

  • Donovan Webb

    University of Oxford

  • Gabriel Araneda

    University of Oxford

  • David M Lucas

    University of Oxford

  • Raghavendra Srinivas

    University of Oxford/Oxford Ionics, University of Oxford

  • Chris J Ballance

    University of Oxford, University of Oxford/Oxford Ionics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford