Publications (12)
Bilayer Ion Trap Design for 2D Arrays
Gavin N. Nop, Jonathan D. H. Smith, Daniel Stick +1
Junctions are fundamental elements that support qubit locomotion in two-dimensional ion trap arrays and enhance connectivity in emerging trapped-ion quantum computers. In surface i…
Autonomous multi-ion optical clock with on-chip integrated photonic light delivery
Tharon D. Morrison, Joonhyuk Kwon, Matthew A. Delaney +4
Integrated photonics in trapped-ion systems are critical for the realization of applications such as portable optical atomic clocks and scalable quantum computers. However, system-…
Closed-loop optimization of fast trapped-ion shuttling with sub-quanta excitation
Jonathan D. Sterk, Henry Coakley, Joshua Goldberg +7
Shuttling ions at high speed and with low motional excitation is essential for realizing fast and high-fidelity algorithms in many trapped-ion based quantum computing architectures…
Multi-site Integrated Optical Addressing of Trapped Ions
Joonhyuk Kwon, William J. Setzer, Michael Gehl +6
One of the most effective ways to advance the performance of quantum computers and quantum sensors is to increase the number of qubits or quantum resources in the system. A major t…
JaqalPaw: A Guide to Defining Pulses and Waveforms for Jaqal
Daniel Lobser, Joshua Goldberg, Andrew J. Landahl +8
One of the many challenges of developing an open user testbed such as QSCOUT is providing an interface that maintains simplicity without compromising expressibility or control. Thi…
Scatter-Gather DMA Performance Analysis within an SoC-based Control System for Trapped-Ion Quantum Computing
Tiamike Dudley, Jim Plusquellic, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou +3
Scatter-gather dynamic-memory-access (SG-DMA) is utilized in applications that require high bandwidth and low latency data transfers between memory and peripherals, where data bloc…
Engineering the Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed (QSCOUT): Design details and user guide
Susan M. Clark, Daniel Lobser, Melissa Revelle +13
The Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed (QSCOUT) at Sandia National Laboratories is a trapped-ion qubit system designed to evaluate the potential of near-term quantum ha…
Integration of fluorescence collection optics with a microfabricated surface electrode ion trap
Gregory R. Brady, A. Robert Ellis, David L. Moehring +11
We have successfully demonstrated an integrated optical system for collecting the fluorescence from a trapped ion. The system, consisting of an array of transmissive, dielectric mi…
High-fidelity trapped-ion qubit operations with scalable photonic modulators
Craig W. Hogle, Daniel Dominguez, Mark Dong +5
Experiments with trapped ions and neutral atoms typically employ optical modulators in order to control the phase, frequency, and amplitude of light directed to individual atoms. T…
Design and analysis of digital communication within an SoC-based control system for trapped-ion quantum computing
Nafis Irtija, Jim Plusquellic, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou +3
Electronic control systems used for quantum computing have become increasingly complex as multiple qubit technologies employ larger numbers of qubits with higher fidelity targets.…
Single qubit manipulation in a microfabricated surface electrode ion trap
Emily Mount, So-Young Baek, Matthew Blain +7
We trap individual Yb ions in a surface trap microfabricated on a silicon substrate, and demonstrate a complete set of high fidelity single qubit operations for the hyp…
Assembling a ring-shaped crystal in a microfabricated surface ion trap
Boyan Tabakov, Francisco Benito, Matthew Blain +7
We report on experiments with a microfabricated surface trap designed for trapping a chain of ions in a ring. Uniform ion separation over most of the ring is achieved with a rotati…