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Area of Science:

  • Quantum Computing
  • Atomic Physics
  • Quantum Information Science

Background:

  • Trapped-ion qubits are promising platforms for quantum computation.
  • Achieving high-fidelity single-qubit gates is crucial for scalable quantum computers.
  • Minimizing errors from decoherence, leakage, and measurement is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate single-qubit gates with sub-part-per-million error rates.
  • To investigate the trade-off between gate speed and fidelity in a trapped-ion system.
  • To identify and quantify dominant error sources in the qubit operations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a ^{43}Ca^{+} hyperfine clock qubit in a surface-electrode trap.
  • Employed chip-integrated microwave resonators for electronic qubit control.
  • Explored gate times ranging from 4.4 to 35 microseconds.

Main Results:

  • Achieved single-qubit gates with error rates below 1.5(4)×10^{-7} per Clifford gate.
  • Suppressed calibration errors to below 10^{-8}.
  • Identified qubit decoherence (T_{2}≈70s), leakage, and measurement as primary error sources.

Conclusions:

  • Single-qubit gates with unprecedented fidelity have been realized in a trapped-ion system.
  • The experimental setup operates at room temperature without magnetic shielding.
  • Further improvements require addressing decoherence, leakage, and measurement errors for advanced quantum computing.