Towards real‐world quantum networks: a review

SH Wei, B Jing, XY Zhang, JY Liao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum networks play an extremely important role in quantum information science, with
application to quantum communication, computation, metrology, and fundamental tests. One …

Single ion qubit with estimated coherence time exceeding one hour

P Wang, CY Luan, M Qiao, M Um, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Realizing a long coherence time quantum memory is a major challenge of current quantum
technology. Until now, the longest coherence-time of a single qubit was reported as 660 s in …

High-rate, high-fidelity entanglement of qubits across an elementary quantum network

LJ Stephenson, DP Nadlinger, BC Nichol, S An… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate remote entanglement of trapped-ion qubits via a quantum-optical fiber link
with fidelity and rate approaching those of local operations. Two Sr+ 88 qubits are entangled …

Microwaves in quantum computing

JC Bardin, DH Slichter, DJ Reilly - IEEE journal of microwaves, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum information processing systems rely on a broad range of microwave technologies
and have spurred development of microwave devices and methods in new operating …

Robust quantum memory in a trapped-ion quantum network node

P Drmota, D Main, DP Nadlinger, BC Nichol… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We integrate a long-lived memory qubit into a mixed-species trapped-ion quantum network
node. Ion-photon entanglement first generated with a network qubit in Sr+ 88 is transferred …

Fast, high-fidelity addressed single-qubit gates using efficient composite pulse sequences

AD Leu, MF Gely, MA Weber, MC Smith… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We use electronic microwave control methods to implement addressed single-qubit gates
with high speed and fidelity, for Ca+ 43 hyperfine “atomic clock” qubits in a cryogenic (100 …

How to Wire a -Qubit Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

M Malinowski, DTC Allcock, CJ Ballance - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
One of the most formidable challenges of scaling up quantum computers is that of control-
signal delivery. Today's small-scale quantum computers typically connect each qubit to one …

Mid-infrared quantum optics in silicon

LM Rosenfeld, DA Sulway, GF Sinclair, V Anant… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Applied quantum optics stands to revolutionise many aspects of information technology,
provided performance can be maintained when scaled up. Silicon quantum photonics …

Scalable, high-fidelity all-electronic control of trapped-ion qubits

CM Löschnauer, JM Toba, AC Hughes, SA King… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The central challenge of quantum computing is implementing high-fidelity quantum gates at
scale. However, many existing approaches to qubit control suffer from a scale-performance …

Benchmarking a high-fidelity mixed-species entangling gate

AC Hughes, VM Schäfer, K Thirumalai, DP Nadlinger… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We implement a two-qubit logic gate between a Ca 43+ hyperfine qubit and a Sr 88+
Zeeman qubit. For this pair of ion species, the S–P optical transitions are close enough that …