Ionq, Inc.

University System of Maryland

Andrii Maksymov

Yunseong Nam

Nikodem Grzesiak

Pradeep Niroula

Ming Li

Reinhold Blumel

Reinhold Blümel

A method for performing at least a portion of a computational process includes computing a pulse function of a pulse to be applied to a first pair of trapped ions in a first ion chain based on a phase-space condition, wherein the phase-space condition is derived using equi-spaced synthetic frequencies in a frequency interval that includes a range set by a highest and a lowest motional mode frequency of the first ion chain, generating the pulse based on the computed pulse function, and applying the generated pulse to each of a second pair of trapped ions in a second ion chain to perform an entangling gate operation between the second pair of trapped ions in the second ion chain.

Universal gate pulse for two-qubit gates on a trapped-ion quantum computer

A method of performing computation using an ion trap quantum computing system including a classical computer, a system controller, and a quantum processor includes computing, by the classical computer, a circuit that implements a selected set of gate operations, using one or more efficient arbitrary simultaneous entangling (EASE) gates, implementing, by the system controller, the computed circuit on the quantum processor, measuring, by the system controller, population of qubit states in the quantum processor, and outputting, by the classical computer, the measured population of qubit states in the quantum processor.

Quantum circuit construction with simultaneously entangling gates in trapped-ion quantum computers

A method for performing an entangling operation between trapped ions in a quantum computer includes selecting an amount of infidelity that is allowed in an entangling operation between two trapped ions in a quantum computer, computing a pulse function of a pulse to be applied to each of the two trapped ions based on gate operation conditions and the selected amount of infidelity, generating the pulse based on the computed pulse function, and applying the generated pulse to each of the two trapped ions to perform the entangling operation between the two trapped ions.

Fast two-qubit gates on a trapped-ion quantum computer

A method of performing a quantum computation process includes mapping logical qubits to physical qubits of a quantum processor so that quantum circuits are executable using the physical qubits of the quantum processor and a total infidelity of the plurality of quantum circuits is minimized, wherein each of the physical qubits comprise a trapped ion, and each of the plurality of quantum circuits comprises single-qubit gates and two-qubit gates within the plurality of the logical qubits, calibrating two-qubit gates within a first plurality of pairs of physical qubits, such that infidelity of the two-qubit gates within the first plurality of pairs of physical qubit is lowered, executing the plurality of quantum circuits on the quantum processor, by applying laser pulses that each cause a single-qubit gate operation and a two-qubit gate operation in each of the plurality of quantum circuits on the plurality of physical qubits, measuring population of qubit states of the physical qubits in the quantum processor, and outputting the measured population of qubit states of the physical qubits.

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