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High-performance gates on trapped ion qubits using counterpropagating pulse-shaped laser beams

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15672v1
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:28:27 GMT
Title: High-performance gates on trapped ion qubits using counterpropagating pulse-shaped laser beams
Abstract summary: Single-qubit gates are traditionally implemented with copropagating beams.<n>We design and implement pulse-amplitude and dephasing robust dynamically corrected gates.<n>We find that counterpropagating robust gates often outperform their copropagating counterparts.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Highly-localized light-matter interactions are necessary for scaling trapped-ion architectures. In hyperfine qubits, counterpropagating beams generate entangling gates by coupling with motion, but this effect is undesirable during single-qubit operations. For that reason, single-qubit gates are traditionally implemented with copropagating beams, and the coexistence of two beam geometries adds hardware and computational overhead. In an effort towards collective performance improvement with minimal overhead, we design and implement pulse-amplitude and dephasing robust dynamically corrected gates using Space Curve Quantum Control (SCQC) and compare them against the constant-amplitude gate implementation. We perform gate set tomography on a four-qubit trapped-ion register, and we discover more than 50% error reduction when robust pulses are used. We find that counterpropagating robust gates often outperform their copropagating counterparts and reach error rates as low as $(3.59 \pm 1.25)\cdot 10^{-3}$, using diamond distance as a metric. This value establishes a laser-driven-gate error reference and is merely an order of magnitude higher than the best reported $\textit{microwave}$ gate on a $\textit{single}$ ion. Additional experiments reveal that robust pulses can effectively suppress non-Markovian errors that grow during runtime. Our work challenges the widely accepted belief that copropagating gates should be preferred for their weak motional coupling and invites the adoption of high-performance robust pulses that suppress multiple noise sources of the trapped-ion error budget.

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