Ultrafast quantum gate operations in a Kramers-Henneberger atom Qubit

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07185v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:00:01 GMT
• Title: Ultrafast quantum gate operations in a Kramers-Henneberger atom Qubit
• Abstract summary: We show the Kramers-Henneberger KH atom as a novel qubit platform for ultrafast single-qubit gate operations.<n>Results constitute the first demonstration of coherent single-qubit gates in a strong-field setting.
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• Abstract: We propose and demonstrate the Kramers-Henneberger KH) atom as a novel qubit platform for ultrafast single-qubit gate operations. In the KH frame, the time-averaged strong laser field engineers a double-well potential whose two lowest eigenstates define the qubit basis, so that the computational structure is created and maintained by the driving field itself. A weak resonant control field drives coherent gate operations: full time-dependent Schrödinger equation simulations with the complete time-dependent KH potential confirm a Z gate and S gate of the order of femtoseconds, six orders of magnitude faster than laser-driven superconducting qubit gates. Decoherence characterisation gives longer decoherence times than those required for the gate operations. The complete six-gate single-qubit set is demonstrated in the time-averaged two-level limit, with strong agreement between the full and time-averaged descriptions confirming that fidelity is limited by structured leakage rather than stochastic decoherence. In principle, this is an error channel suppressible through pulse engineering. These results constitute the first demonstration of coherent single-qubit gates in a strong-field setting, with a clear pathway toward attosecond-scale operations.

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