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Argon-Ion Treatment of Multi-Material Layered Surface-Electrode Traps for Noise Mitigation

November 28, 2025
Author(s)
Dustin Hite, Tobias Schaetz, Deviprasath Palani, Florian Hasse, Philip Kiefer, Frederick Bockling, Daniel Stick, Ulrich Warring
Electric-field noise near ion-trap electrodes limits motional coherence and represents a key obstacle to scaling trapped-ion quantum systems. Here, we investigate how in situ Ar+ sputtering modifies motional heating and dephasing in multi-material surface

Robust Two-Qubit Geometric Phase Gates using Amplitude and Frequency Ramping

November 18, 2025
Author(s)
Christina Bowers, Deviprasath Palani, John Barta, Tyler Guglielmo, Stephen Libby, Dietrich Leibfried, Daniel Slichter
We demonstrate a method for generating entanglement between trapped atomic ions based on adiabatically ramped state-dependent forces. By ramping both the amplitude of the state-dependent force and the motional mode frequencies, we realize an entangling

Towards a quantum repeater using a surface-trap-integrated microcavity and trapped ions

November 18, 2025
Author(s)
Lindsay Sonderhouse, Margaret Bruff, Kaitlyn David, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried
Trapped ions are a leading candidate for the "stationary qubits" of a quantum network. However, thus far remote entanglement rates have primarily been limited by low photon collection efficiency. In this work, we propose an architecture for a long-range

Compatibility of trapped ions and dielectrics at cryogenic temperatures

November 17, 2025
Author(s)
Margaret Bruff, Lindsay Sonderhouse, Kaitlyn David, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried, Jules Stuart
We study the impact of an unshielded dielectric\textemdash here, a bare optical fiber\textemdash on a $^40}$Ca$^+}$ ion held several hundred $\mu$m away in a cryogenic surface electrode trap. We observe distance-dependent stray electric fields of up to a

Single-photon time-of-flight measurements for benchmarking time transfer in quantum networks

November 14, 2025
Author(s)
Dongxing He, Paulina Kuo, YaShian Li-Baboud, Anouar Rahmouni, Matthew Shaw, Boris Korzh, Thomas Gerrits
We propose a single-photon time-of-flight (ToF) measurement method to benchmark fiber-path delay estimation in optical two-way time and frequency transfer (OTWTFT) protocols. The single-photon ToF measurement yields uncertainties better than 2 ps (0.5 mm

A fault-tolerant neutral-atom architecture for universal quantum computation

November 10, 2025
Author(s)
Dolev Bluvstein, Alexandra Geim, Sophie Li, Simon Evered, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Gefen Baranes, Andi Gu, Tom Manovitz, Muqing Xu, Marcin Kalinowski, Shayan Majidy, Christian Kokail, Nishad Maskara, Elias C Trapp, Luke Stewart, Simon Hollerith, Hengyun Zhou, Michael Gullans, Susanne Yelin, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletic, Madelyn Cain, Mikhail Lukin
Quantum error correction (QEC) is believed to be essential for the realization of large-scale quantum computers. However, due to the complexity of operating on the encoded 'logical' qubits, understanding the physical principles for building fault-tolerant

Unraveling spin entanglement using quantum gates with scanning tunneling microscopy-driven electron spin resonance

October 31, 2025
Author(s)
Eric Switzer, Jose Reina Galvez, Geza Giedke, Talat Rahman, Christoph Wolf, Deung-Jang Choi, Nicolas Lorente
Quantum entanglement is a fundamental resource for quantum information processing, and its controlled generation and detection remain key challenges in scalable quantum architectures. Here, we demonstrate the deterministic generation of entangled spin

Temperature-Compensated Multi-Level CMOS Modulators Operating from 10 K to 300 K for Cryogenic Interconnects

October 14, 2025
Author(s)
Christopher Kniss, Abhishek Sharma, Ratanak Phon, Gregory Shimon, Eran Socher, Pragya Shrestha, Karthick Ramu, Jason Campbell, Amin Pourvali, Richard Al Hadi, Yanghyo Kim
This work presents temperature-compensated cryogenic CMOS modulators operating over a 10-300 K temperature range, suitable for intra- and inter-thermal cryogenic communications. Conventional metal-based coax cables suffer from a fundamental trade-off

Scalable and fault-tolerant preparation of encoded k-uniform states

October 3, 2025
Author(s)
Shayan Majidy, Dominik Hangleiter, Michael Gullans
k-uniform states are valuable resources in quantum information, enabling tasks such as teleporta- tion, error correction, and accelerated quantum simulations. However, verifying k-uniformity is as difficult as measuring code distances, and devising fault

Efficient production of sodium Bose-Einstein condensates in a hybrid trap

September 10, 2025
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Stephen Eckel, Gretchen Campbell, Yanda Geng, Shouvikl Mukherjee, Swarnav Banik, Monica Gutierrez~Galan, Hector Sosa-Martinez, Madison Anderson
We describe an apparatus that efficiently produces $^23}$Na Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a hybrid trap that combines a quadrupole magnetic field with a far-detuned optical dipole trap. Using a Bayesian optimization framework, we systematically

Accurate Unsupervised Photon Counting from Transition Edge Sensor Signals

September 5, 2025
Author(s)
Nicolas Dalbec-Constant, Guillaume Thekkadath, Duncan England, Thomas Gerrits, Nicolas Quesada
We compare methods for signal classification applied to voltage traces from transition edge sensors (TES) which are photon-number resolving detectors fundamental for accessing quantum advantages in information processing, communication and metrology. We

Fault-tolerant hyperbolic Floquet quantum error correcting codes

September 5, 2025
Author(s)
Ali Fahimniya, Hossein Dehghani, Kishor Bharti, Sheryl Mathew, Alicia Kollar, Alexey Gorshkov, Michael Gullans
A central goal in quantum error correction is to reduce the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing by increasing noise thresholds and reducing the number of physical qubits required to sustain a logical qubit. We introduce a potential path towards

BenchQC: A Benchmarking Toolkit for Quantum Computation

August 4, 2025
Author(s)
Nia Rodney-Pollard, Kamal Choudhary
The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) is a widely studied hybrid classical-quantum algorithm for approximating ground-state energies in molecular and materials systems. This study benchmarks the performance of the VQE for calculating ground-state

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

August 4, 2025
Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver Slattery
The intention of this dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and sources with the goal to promote better understanding and communication of those metrics across the single-photon

Error mitigation thresholds in noisy random quantum circuits

July 25, 2025
Author(s)
Pradeep Niroula, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Michael Gullans
Extracting useful information from noisy near-term quantum simulations requires error mitigation strategies. A broad class of these strategies rely on precise characterization of the noise source. We study the performance of such strategies when the noise

High-Stability Single-Ion Clock with 5.5 x 10^-19 Systematic Uncertainty

July 14, 2025
Author(s)
Mason Marshall, Daniel Rodriguez Castillo, Willa Dworschack, Alexander Aeppli, Kyungtae Kim, Dahyeon Lee, William Warfield, Nicholas Nardelli, Tara Fortier, Jun Ye, David Ray Leibrandt, David Hume
We report a single-ion optical atomic clock with fractional frequency uncertainty of 5.5 x 10^-19 and frequency stability of 3.5 x 10^-16/sqrttau/s}, based on quantum logic spectroscopy of a single 27Al+ ion. A co-trapped 25Mg+ ion provides sympathetic
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