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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2021
Ionq, Inc., College Park, MD (US);
Jason Madjdi Amini, Takoma Park, MD (US);
Kenneth Wright, Berwyn Heights, MD (US);
Kristin Marie Beck, College Park, MD (US);
IonQ, Inc., College Park, MD (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure describe techniques for cooling motional states in an ion trap for quantum computers. In an aspect, a method includes performing Doppler cooling and sideband cooling to sweep motional states associated with a motional mode to a zero motional state; applying a gate interaction on a red sideband; detecting, a population of non-zero motional states of the motional mode that remains after performing the Doppler cooling and the sideband cooling; and removing at least part of the population. In another aspect, a method includes performing a Doppler cooling; applying a gate interaction on a red sideband; detecting whether a population of non-zero motional states of the motional mode remains after performing the Doppler cooling; and redistributing the population of the non-zero motional states by Doppler cooling when a population is detected. A quantum information processing (QIP) system that performs these methods is also described.