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Title: Dispersive optical systems for scalable Raman driving of hyperfine qubits

Journal Article · · Physical Review A
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  1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); AWS Center for Quantum Computing, Pasadena, CA (United States)
  2. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
  3. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); QuEra Computing Inc., Boston, MA (United States)
  4. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); QuEra Computing Inc., Boston, MA (United States); Google Switzerland GmbH, Zurich (Switzerland)
  5. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Hyperfine atomic states are among the most promising candidates for qubit encoding in quantum information processing. In atomic systems, hyperfine transitions are typically driven through a two-photon Raman process by a laser field which is amplitude modulated at the hyperfine qubit frequency. Here we introduce a method for generating amplitude modulation by phase modulating a laser and reflecting it from a highly dispersive optical element known as a chirped Bragg grating. This approach is passively stable, offers high efficiency, and is compatible with high-power laser sources, enabling large Rabi frequencies and improved quantum coherence. We benchmark this approach by globally driving an array of approximately 300 neutral 87Rb atomic qubits trapped in optical tweezers and obtain Rabi frequencies of 2 MHz with photon-scattering error rates of less than 2×10-4 per π pulse. This robust approach can be directly integrated with local addressing optics in both neutral atom and trapped ion systems to facilitate high-fidelity single-qubit operations for quantum information processing.

Research Organization:
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0021013; DGE1745303
OSTI ID:
1979612
Journal Information:
Physical Review A, Vol. 105, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9926
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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