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A blueprint for fault-tolerant quantum computation with Rydberg atoms
James M. Auger, Silvia Bergamini, Dan E. Browne
- Year
- 2017
- Journal
- arXiv preprint
- DOI
- arXiv:1707.06498
- arXiv
- 1707.06498
We present a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer with Rydberg atoms. Our scheme, which is based on the surface code, uses individually-addressable optically-trapped atoms as qubits and exploits electromagnetically induced transparency to perform the multi-qubit gates required for error correction and computation. We discuss the advantages and challenges of using Rydberg atoms to build such a quantum computer, and we perform error correction simulations to obtain an error threshold for our scheme. Our findings suggest that Rydberg atoms are a promising candidate for quantum computation, but gate fidelities need to improve before fault-tolerant universal quantum computation can be achieved.
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Subwavelength vacuum lattices and atom-atom interactions in photonic crystals
A. González-Tudela, C. -L. Hung, D. E. Chang, J. I. Cirac, H. J. Kimble
- Year
- 2014
- Journal
- arXiv preprint
- DOI
- arXiv:1407.7336
- arXiv
- 1407.7336
We propose the use of photonic crystal structures to design subwavelength optical lattices in two dimensions for ultracold atoms by using both Guided Modes and Casimir-Polder forces. We further show how to use Guided Modes for photon-induced large and strongly long-range interactions between trapped atoms. Finally, we analyze the prospects of this scheme to implement spin models for quantum simulation
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