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arXiv:2207.04583

Robust gate design for large ion crystals through excitation of local phonon modes

L. -M. Duan

Published Jul 11, 2022• 1 citation
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Abstract

We propose a scalable design of entangling quantum gates for large ion crystals with the following desirable features: 1) The gate design is universal and applicable for large ion crystals of arbitrary sizes; 2) The gate has no speed limitation and can work outside of the Lamb-Dicke region; 3) The gate operates by driving from either continuous-wave or pulsed laser beams; 4) The gate is insensitive to slow variation of the laser optical phase and works under a thermal state for the ions' motion; 5) The intrinsic gate infidelity can be reduced to a level well below the threshold for fault-tolerant quantum computation under realistic experimental parameters. Different from the previous gate schemes, here we propose a gate design based on driving of the local oscillation mode of the ions instead of the collective normal modes and develop a formalism based on the Heisenberg equations to deal with the many-body quantum dynamics outside of the Lamb-Dicke region.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2207.04583

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The high-fidelity multi-ion entangled states and quantum gates are the basis for trapped-ion quantum computing. Among the developed quantum gate schemes, Mølmer-Sørensen gate is a relatively mature experimental technique to realize multi-ion entanglement and quantum logic gates. In recent years, there have also been schemes to realize ultrafast quantum entanglement and quantum logic gates that operate outside the Lamb-Dicke regime by designing ultrafast laser pulse sequences. In such a many-body quantum system, these entanglement gates couple the spin states between ions by driving either the phonon energy level or the motional state of the ion chain. To improve the fidelity of quantum gates, the modulated laser pulses or the appropriately designed pulse sequences are applied to decouple the multi-mode motional states. In this review, we summarize and analyze the essential aspects of realizing these entanglement gates from both theoretical and experimental points of view. We also reveal that the basic physical process of realizing quantum gates is to utilize nonlinear interactions in non-equilibrium processes through driving the motional states of an ion chain with laser fields.
We present a robust quantum optimal control framework for implementing fast entangling gates on ion-trap quantum processors. The framework leverages tailored laser pulses to drive the multiple vibrational sidebands of the ions to create phonon-mediated entangling gates and, unlike the state of the art, requires neither weak-coupling Lamb-Dicke approximation nor perturbation treatment. With the application of gradient-based optimal control, it enables finding amplitude- and phase-modulated laser control protocols that work beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime, promising gate speed at the order of microseconds comparable to the characteristic trap frequencies. Also, robustness requirements on the temperature of the ions and initial optical phase can be conveniently included to pursue high-quality fast gates against experimental imperfections. Our approach represents a step in speeding up quantum gates to achieve larger quantum circuits for quantum computation and simulation, and thus can find applications in near-future experiments.