A Race-Track Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor
Steven A. Moses, Charles H. Baldwin, M. S. Allman, R. Ancona, L. Ascarrunz, C. H. W. Barnes, John P. Bartolotta, Bryce Bjork, P. Blanchard, Matthew J. Bohn, J. G. Bohnet, N. C. Brown, N. Q. Burdick, William Cody Burton, Sara Campbell, J. P. Campora, C. Carron, Jeanne C. Chambers, J. W. Chan, Yu‐Hsin Chen, A. Chernoguzov, Eli Chertkov, J. Colina, J. P. Curtis, Ryszard A. Daniel, Matthew DeCross, David A. Deen, Conor P. Delaney, Joan Dreiling, Christopher Ertsgaard, J. Esposito, Brian Estey, Maya Fabrikant, Caroline Figgatt, Clémence Foltz, Michael Foss‐Feig, David Francois, John Gaebler, Thomas Gatterman, C. N. Gilbreth, J. Giles, E. Glynn, Alex Hall, Aaron Hankin, Ann‐Brit Eg Hansen, David Hayes, B. Higashi, Ian M. Hoffman, B. Horning, J. J. Hout, Ryan T. Jacobs, Jacob Johansen, Lyndon Jones, J. Karcz, T. Klein, P. Lauria, Patricia Lee, D. Liefer, Shih-Wen Lu, D. Lucchetti, C. Lytle, Andrew Malm, Mitchell Matheny, B. Mathewson, Karl Mayer, David B. Miller, Michael Mills, B. Neyenhuis, Lora Nugent, S. Jay Olson, J. Parks, Gabriel Price, Z. Price, M. C. Pugh, Anthony Ransford, Adam Reed, Conrad Roman, M. Röwe, Ciarán Ryan-Anderson, S. Sanders, J. Sedlacek, P. Shevchuk, P. Siegfried, T. Skripka, B. Spaun, R. T. Sprenkle, Russell Stutz, M. D. Swallows, R. Tobey, An V. Tran, Thinh Ngoc Tran, Erich Vogt, Curtis Volin, J. Walker, A. M. Zolot, Juan Miguel Rey Pino
Abstract
We describe and benchmark a new quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) trapped-ion quantum computer based on a linear trap with periodic boundary conditions, which resembles a race track. The new system successfully incorporates several technologies crucial to future scalability—including electrode broadcasting, multilayer rf routing, and magneto-optical trap (MOT) loading—while maintaining, and in some cases exceeding, the gate fidelities of previous QCCD systems. The system is initially operated with 32 qubits, but future upgrades will allow for more. We benchmark the performance of primitive operations, including an average state preparation and measurement error of 1.6(1)×10^{-3}, an average single-qubit gate infidelity of 2.5(3)×10^{-5}, and an average two-qubit gate infidelity of 1.84(5)×10^{-3}. The system-level performance of the quantum processor is assessed with mirror benchmarking, linear cross-entropy benchmarking, a quantum volume measurement of QV=2^{16}, and the creation of 32-qubit entanglement in a GHZ state. We also tested application benchmarks, including Hamiltonian simulation, QAOA, error correction on a repetition code, and dynamics simulations using qubit reuse. We also discuss future upgrades to the new system aimed at adding more qubits and capabilities.