• Acta Physica Sinica
  • Vol. 68, Issue 3, 030306-1 (2019)
Ye Wang, Jing-Ning Zhang*, and Kihwan Kim
DOI: 10.7498/aps.68.20181729 Cite this Article
Ye Wang, Jing-Ning Zhang, Kihwan Kim. Single-ion qubit with coherence time exceeding 10 minutes[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(3): 030306-1 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

Quantum memory device capable of storing quantum information for a long period of time is one of the fundamental ingredients to realize large-scale quantum computation and quantum communication. Comparing with other quantum computation platforms, one of the advantages of the trapped-ion system is the long intrinsic coherence time. Before our work, the longest single-qubit coherence time in trapped-ion systems has been achieved to be less than 1 minute. It is discovered that the main limitation for the coherence time is the motional mode heating and the environment noise that includes the contributions from the magnetic field fluctuation and the phase noise of the microwaves. In a hybrid trapping system simultaneously trapping 171Yb+ and 138Ba+ ions, single-qubit quantum memories with coherence time longer than 10 minutes can be realized by applying sympathetic cooling and dynamical decoupling. This technique may have some value as the building blocks for quantum cryptography protocols and hybrid quantum computation platforms.
Ye Wang, Jing-Ning Zhang, Kihwan Kim. Single-ion qubit with coherence time exceeding 10 minutes[J]. Acta Physica Sinica, 2019, 68(3): 030306-1
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