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Quantum amplification of boson-mediated interactions

ORAL

Abstract

Strong and precisely controlled interactions between quantum objects are essential for emerging technologies such as quantum information processing, simulation, and sensing. A well-established paradigm for coupling otherwise weakly interacting quantum objects is to use auxiliary quantum particles, typically bosons, to mediate interactions, for example photon-mediated interactions between atoms or superconducting qubits, and phonon-mediated interactions between trapped ions. General methods for amplifying these interactions through parametric driving of the boson channel have been proposed for a variety of quantum platforms, but an experimental demonstration has yet to be realized. Here we experimentally demonstrate the amplification of a boson-mediated interaction between two trapped-ion qubits by parametrically modulating the confining potential of the trap. The stronger interaction enables a 3.3-fold reduction in the time required to implement an entangling gate between the two qubits. Our method can be applied wherever parametric modulation of the boson channel is possible, enabling its use in a variety of quantum platforms to explore new parameter regimes and for enhanced quantum information processing.

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Presenters

  • Shaun Burd

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, University of Colorado, Boulder

Authors

  • Shaun Burd

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Raghavendra Srinivas

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Hannah M Knaack

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Wenchao Ge

    Texas A&M University

  • Andrew C Wilson

    Time & Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • David J Wineland

    University of Oregon, Eugene, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Dietrich Leibfried

    Time & Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Time and Frequency Division, NIST, Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • John Jacob Bollinger

    NIST Boulder, NIST - Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder

  • David Thomas Charles Allcock

    University of Oregon, Eugene

  • Daniel H Slichter

    National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder