High-fidelity indirect readout of trapped-ion hyperfine qubits

Published

April 21, 2022

Author(s)

Stephen Erickson, Jenny Wu, Panyu Hou, Daniel Cole, Shawn Geller, Alexander Kwiatkowski, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill, Daniel Slichter, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a protocol for high-fidelity indirect readout of trapped ion hyperfine qubits, where the state of a 9Be+ qubit ion is mapped to a 25Mg+ readout ion using laser-driven Raman transitions. By partitioning the 9Be+ ground-state hyperfine manifold into two subspaces representing the two qubit states and choosing appropriate laser parameters, the protocol can be made robust to spontaneous photon scattering errors on the Raman transitions, enabling repetition for increased readout fidelity. We demonstrate combined readout and back-action errors for the two subspaces of 1.2(+1.1/−0.6)×10^−4 and 0(+1.9/−0)×10^−5 with 68% confidence while avoiding decoherence of spectator qubits due to stray resonant light that is inherent to direct fluorescence detection.

Citation

Physical Review Letters

Volume

128

Pub Type

Journals

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Keywords

quantum information, trapped ions, high-fidelity measurement, quantum logic spectroscopy

Citation

Erickson, S. , Wu, J. , Hou, P. , Cole, D. , Geller, S. , Kwiatkowski, A. , Glancy, S. , Knill, E. , Slichter, D. , Wilson, A. and Leibfried, D. (2022), High-fidelity indirect readout of trapped-ion hyperfine qubits, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933318 (Accessed April 29, 2024)