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Publications (10)

physics.atom-ph2021

High stability cryogenic system for quantum computing with compact packaged ion traps

Robert F. Spivey, Ismail V. Inlek, Zhubing Jia +9

Cryogenic environments benefit ion trapping experiments by offering lower motional heating rates, collision energies, and an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) environment for maintaining lon…

quant-ph2019

High-Speed Low-Crosstalk Detection of a Yb Qubit using Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors

Stephen Crain, Clinton Cahall, Geert Vrijsen +5

Qubits used in quantum computing tend to suffer from errors, either from the qubit interacting with the environment, or from imperfect control when quantum logic gates are applied.…

physics.optics2011

Stable Optical Phase Modulation with Micromirrors

Caleb Knoernschild, Taehyun Kim, Peter Maunz +2

We measure the motional fluctuations of a micromechanical mirror using a Michelson interferometer, and demonstrate its interferometric stability. The position stability of the micr…

quant-ph2020

High-fidelity Two-qubit Gates Using a MEMS-based Beam Steering System for Individual Qubit Addressing

Ye Wang, Stephen Crain, Chao Fang +6

In a large scale trapped atomic ion quantum computer, high-fidelity two-qubit gates need to be extended over all qubits with individual control. We realize and characterize high-fi…

quant-ph2015

Error Compensation of Single-Qubit Gates in a Surface Electrode Ion Trap Using Composite Pulses

Emily Mount, Chingiz Kabytayev, Stephen Crain +7

The fidelity of laser-driven quantum logic operations on trapped ion qubits tend to be lower than microwave-driven logic operations due to the difficulty of stabilizing the driving…

quant-ph2022

Hidden Inverses: Coherent Error Cancellation at the Circuit Level

Bichen Zhang, Swarnadeep Majumder, Pak Hong Leung +6

Coherent gate errors are a concern in many proposed quantum computing architectures. These errors can be effectively handled through composite pulse sequences for single-qubit gate…

cs.CL2025

Large language models are not about natural language

Johan J. Bolhuis, Andrea Moro, Stephen Crain +1

Large Language Models are useless for linguistics, as they are probabilistic models that require a vast amount of data to analyse externalized strings of words. In contrast, human…

quant-ph2024

Design and characterization of individual addressing optics based on multi-channel acousto-optic modulator for Yb qubits

Sungjoo Lim, Seunghyun Baek, Jacob Whitlow +7

We present the design and characterization of individual addressing optics based on a multi-channel acousto-optic modulator (AOM) for trapped ytterbium-171 ions. The design paramet…

quant-ph2015

Scalable Digital Hardware for a Trapped Ion Quantum Computer

Emily Mount, Daniel Gaultney, Geert Vrijsen +8

Many of the challenges of scaling quantum computer hardware lie at the interface between the qubits and the classical control signals used to manipulate them. Modular ion trap quan…

quant-ph2013

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…