Large-scale modular quantum-computer architecture with atomic memory and photonic interconnects

Monroe, C.; Raussendorf, Robert; Ruthven, A.; Brown, Kenneth R.; Maunz, Peter; Duan, Luming; Kim, J.

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“…Several ELU modules, each with full control of 50-100 trapped ions through Coulomb gates, are connected through a photonic network utilising an optical crossconnect switch, inline fiber beamsplitters and a photon-counting imager. 44 quantum computer will require connections between distant qubits and a method for producing entanglement that is independent of distance. 41 Linking atomic qubits with photons To scale beyond the QCCD in a modular architecture, it will likely become necessary to link separate registers of trapped ion chains with photonic interfaces.…”

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“…41 Linking atomic qubits with photons To scale beyond the QCCD in a modular architecture, it will likely become necessary to link separate registers of trapped ion chains with photonic interfaces. 42,43 This allows quantum gates to be performed between any qubits in the processor, regardless of their relative location, 41,44,45 while supporting fault-tolerant error correction even in the face of photonic interconnects that succeed with small probability per attempt. [44][45][46] A pair of trapped ion qubit modules (elementary logic units or ELUs) can be entangled with each other using propagating photons emitted by a subset of ions from each register, designated to be 'communication qubits'.…”

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“…44 This higher level graph is determined by the density of photon-coupled ions ( Figure 5) and is itself dynamic and reconfigurable, leading to great advantages in the use of this type of hierarchical architecture for a host of quantum applications, and may even suggest algorithm structures that have not yet been discovered.…”

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Co-designing a scalable quantum computer with trapped atomic ions

2016

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The first generation of quantum computers are on the horizon, fabricated from quantum hardware platforms that may soon be able to tackle certain tasks that cannot be performed or modelled with conventional computers. These quantum devices will not likely be universal or fully programmable, but special-purpose processors whose hardware will be tightly co-designed with particular target applications. Trapped atomic ions are a leading platform for first-generation quantum computers, but they are also fundamentally scalable to more powerful general purpose devices in future generations. This is because trapped ion qubits are atomic clock standards that can be made identical to a part in 10 15 , and their quantum circuit connectivity can be reconfigured through the use of external fields, without modifying the arrangement or architecture of the qubits themselves. In this forwardlooking overview, we show how a modular quantum computer with thousands or more qubits can be engineered from ion crystals, and how the linkage between ion trap qubits might be tailored to a variety of applications and quantum-computing protocols. Quantum information processors have the potential to perform computational tasks that are difficult or impossible using conventional modes of computing. 1-3 In a radical departure from classical information, the qubits of a quantum computer can simultaneously store bit values 0 and 1, and when measured they probabilistically assume definite states. Many interacting qubits, isolated from their environment, can represent huge amounts of information: there are exponentially many binary numbers that can co-exist, with entangled qubit correlations that can behave as invisible wires between the qubits. Even in the face of Moore's Law, or the doubling in conventional computer power every year or two, the complexity of massively entangled quantum states of just a few hundred qubits can easily eclipse the capacity of classical information processing. 4 There are but a few known applications that exploit this quantum advantage, such as Shor's factoring algorithm, 5 and future quantum information processors will likely be applied to special-purpose applications. On the other hand, a quantum computer has not yet been built; therefore, new quantum applications and algorithms will likely follow from the evolution and capability of quantum hardware.In the 20 years since the advent of Shor's algorithm 5 and the discovery of quantum error correction, 6-8 there has been remarkable progress in demonstrations of entangling quantum gates on o10 qubits in certain physical systems. Current efforts aim to scale to hundreds, thousands or even millions of interacting qubits. Unlike the classical scaling of bits and logic gates, however, large quantum systems are not comparable to the behaviour of just a few qubits. Just because 2 or 4 qubits can be completely controlled with negligible errors does not mean that this system can readily scale to 4100 qubits.In the last few years, two particular quantum hardware platforms have e...

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“…These networks, envisaged over distances from table-top to intercontinental, could enable a range of new science and technology, including scalable quantum computing [2], secure communication [3] and enhanced sensing [4].…”

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Polarisation-preserving photon frequency conversion from a trapped-ion-compatible wavelength to the telecom C-band

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Given the great success in encoding, manipulating, storing and reading-out quantum information in their electronic states, trapped atomic ions represent a powerful platform with which to build, or integrate into, the nodes of quantum networks [5,6]. Indeed, an elementary quantum network consisting of ions in two traps a few meters apart, has been entangled via travelling ultraviolet photons [7]. A challenge is that most readily-accessible photonic transitions in trapped ions lie at wavelengths that suffer significant absorption loss in materials for manipulating and guiding light, thereby limiting the internode networking distance. Another challenge is that ionic transitions are fixed and narrowband, such that, except in rare cases [8], they cannot be interfaced with other examples of quantum matter to enable new ion-hybrid quantum systems [9]. Note that frequency-distinguishable quantum systems can be linked via their photons, though at the cost of reducing the efficiency of making that link [10].The aforementioned challenges could be overcome using quantum frequency conversion (QFC) [11,12]; a nonlinear optical process in which a photon of one frequency is converted to another, whilst preserving all the quantum and classical photon properties. QFC of single photons has recently been studied in a variety of contexts [13][14][15][16][17][18] and is typically achieved using three-wave mixing in a secondorder non-linear ( 2 ) crystal. It has been shown that QFC can preserve a broad range of photon properties, including first-and second-order coherence, and pre-existing photonphoton entanglement [12,19,20]. QFC could, therefore, act as a quantum photonic adapter for trapped ions, allowing their high-energy photonic transitions to be interfaced with the lower-energy photons better suited for long-distance travel through optical fibers, or with other forms of quantum matter.Interfacing trapped ions with the telecom wavelengths of 1310 nm (O band) or 1550 nm (C band) is particularly Abstract We demonstrate polarisation-preserving frequency conversion of single-photon-level light at 854 nm, resonant with a trapped-ion transition and qubit, to the 1550-nm telecom C band. A total photon in / fiber-coupled photon out efficiency of ∼30% is achieved, for a free-running photon noise rate of ∼60 Hz. This performance would enable telecom conversion of 854 nm polarisation qubits, produced in existing trapped-ion systems, with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 1. In combination with near-future trappedion systems, our converter would enable the observation of entanglement between an ion and a photon that has travelled more than 100 km in optical fiber: three orders of magnitude further than the state-of-the-art.

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“…Numerous advances have been achieved in this system, including realization of faithful quantum gates [1][2][3][4][5][6][7], preparation of many-body quantum states [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], and quantum teleportation [16,17]. There are also developments to scale up this system, based on either ion shuttling [18][19][20] or quantum networks [21][22][23][24][25][26]). …”

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Sympathetic cooling in a large ion crystal

Lin

Duan

2015

Quantum Inf Process

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We analyze the dynamics and steady state of a linear ion array when some of the ions are continuously laser cooled. We calculate the ions' local temperature measured by its position fluctuation under various trapping and cooling configurations, taking into account background heating due to the noisy environment. For a large system, we demonstrate that by arranging the cooling ions evenly in the array, one can suppress the overall heating considerably. We also investigate the effect of different cooling rates and find that the optimal cooling efficiency is achieved by an intermediate cooling rate. We discuss the relaxation time for the ions to approach the steady state, and show that with periodic arrangement of the cooling ions, the cooling efficiency does not scale down with the system size.

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Large-scale modular quantum-computer architecture with atomic memory and photonic interconnects

Cited by 585 publications

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Co-designing a scalable quantum computer with trapped atomic ions

Co-designing a scalable quantum computer with trapped atomic ions

Polarisation-preserving photon frequency conversion from a trapped-ion-compatible wavelength to the telecom C-band

Sympathetic cooling in a large ion crystal

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