Arrays of Elliptical Ion Traps for Parallel Quantum Computing

  • Authors:
  • Ralph G. DeVoe

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • QCQC '98 Selected papers from the First NASA International Conference on Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A new microscopic trap, the elliptical ion trap, can confine more than 103 ions with minimal micromotion, due to previously unrecognized properties of one-dimensional Coulomb crystals. Arrays of elliptical ion traps provide a physical model of a parallel quantum computer, consisting of thousands of microscopic Cirac-Zoller processors, each containing approximately 100 ions, maintained in entangled states by quantum optical interconnects. Physical properties of a trap array containing 4 × 106 qubits are derived.