NISQ Applications on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers

Invited

Abstract

Trapped ions are a promising technology for large scale quantum computation. They exhibit long coherence times and have been used to demonstrate world record gate fidelities. We routinely trap linear chains of tens of ions and two- dimensional crystals of hundreds of ions. While there are myriad engineering challenges to surmount to scale up to full control over many ions for circuit based quantum computing, the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) systems which already exist present other computational opportunities. In this talk, I will describe various efforts at GTRI toward the development of trapped ion quantum computers, including a new project to realize trapped ion hardware tailored for combinatorial optimization.

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Authors

  • John Yelton

    North Carolina Central University, Louisiana State University, North Carolina State University, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, Jefferson Lab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Duke University, Georgia Tech Research Institute, General Electric Power, University of the Virgin Islands, University of Florida, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Universities Space Research Association, University of Miami, NC State University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University