Trapped-ion two-qubit gates with >99.99% fidelity without ground-state cooling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17286v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:21:21 GMT
• Title: Trapped-ion two-qubit gates with >99.99% fidelity without ground-state cooling
• Authors: A. C. Hughes, R. Srinivas, C. M. Löschnauer, H. M. Knaack, R. Matt, C. J. Ballance, M. Malinowski, T. P. Harty, R. T. Sutherland,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the'smooth gate', an entangling method for trapped-ion qubits where residual spin-motion entanglement errors are adiabatically eliminated by ramping the gate detuning.<n>Results indicate that trapped-ion quantum computation can achieve high fidelity at temperatures above the Doppler limit, which enables faster and simpler device operation.
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• Abstract: We introduce the 'smooth gate', an entangling method for trapped-ion qubits where residual spin-motion entanglement errors are adiabatically eliminated by ramping the gate detuning. We demonstrate electronically controlled two-qubit gates with an estimated error of $8.4(7)\times10^{-5}$ without ground-state cooling. We further show that the error remains $\lesssim 5\times10^{-4}$ for ions with average phonon occupation up to $\bar{n}=9.4(3)$ on the gate mode. These results indicate that trapped-ion quantum computation can achieve high fidelity at temperatures above the Doppler limit, which enables faster and simpler device operation.

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