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Single-Qubit Gates with Errors at the 10^{-7} Level
M C Smith1, A D Leu1, K Miyanishi1,2
1University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We report the achievement of single-qubit gates with sub-part-per-million error rates, in a trapped-ion ^{43}Ca^{+} hyperfine clock qubit. We explore the speed and fidelity trade-off for gate times 4.4≤t_{g}≤35 μs, and benchmark a minimum error per Clifford gate of 1.5(4)×10^{-7}. Calibration errors are suppressed to <10^{-8}, leaving qubit decoherence (T_{2}≈70 s), leakage, and measurement as the dominant error contributions. The ion is held above a microfabricated surface-electrode trap that incorporates a chip-integrated microwave resonator for electronic qubit control; the trap is operated at room temperature without magnetic shielding.
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