High-fidelity control and entanglement of Rydberg atom qubits

2018/06/12 by Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Ahmed Omran +7 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph #cond-mat.quant-gas #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.121.123603

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123603 (2018) · 9 pages, 4 figures

arxiv created 2018/06/12 · arxiv updated 2018/09/26

Abstract

Individual neutral atoms excited to Rydberg states are a promising platform for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. However, experimental progress to date has been limited by short coherence times and relatively low gate fidelities associated with such Rydberg excitations. We report progress towards high-fidelity quantum control of Rydberg atom qubits. Enabled by a reduction in laser phase noise, our approach yields a significant improvement in coherence properties of individual qubits. We further show that this high-fidelity control extends to the multi-particle case by preparing a two-atom entangled state with a fidelity exceeding 0.97(3), and extending its lifetime with a two-atom dynamical decoupling protocol. These advances open up new prospects for scalable quantum simulation and quantum computation with neutral atoms.

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