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Ultrafast Gates for Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
by
Jonathan Mizrahi
University of Maryland, Joint Quantum Institute
Creating a functional quantum computer which can scale to many thousands of qubits is a very challenging task. The system must be isolated from the environment to an extreme degree, and it must be possible to exert exquisite control over the state of both the individual qubits and the collective ensemble of qubits. To date, a number of different physical systems have been proposed to deal with these challenges. One of the most promising is based on trapped atomic ions. I will talk about why ions make such good qubits, and how we manipulate them and entangle them. I will also talk about recent work we have done on creating ultrafast gates using mode-locked lasers.
Date received: November 17, 2011
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