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State readout of a trapped ion qubit using a trap-integrated superconducting photon detector

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Todaro, S. L., Verma, V. B., McCormick, K. C., Allcock, D. T. C., Mirin, R. P., Wineland, D. J., Nam, S. W., Wilson, A. C. +2 more·2021·Physical Review Letters

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We report high-fidelity state readout of a trapped ion qubit using a trap-integrated photon detector. We determine the hyperfine qubit state of a single ^{9}Be^{+} ion held in a surface-electrode rf ion trap by counting state-dependent ion fluorescence photons with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector fabricated into the trap structure. The average readout fidelity is 0.9991(1), with a mean readout duration of 46 μs, and is limited by the polarization impurity of the readout laser beam and by off-resonant optical pumping. Because there are no intervening optical elements between the ion and the detector, we can use the ion fluorescence as a self-calibrated photon source to determine the detector quantum efficiency and its dependence on photon incidence angle and polarization.

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  • While integrated high-efficiency single-photon detection has been demonstrated with superconducting detectors (SNSPDs), integration with standard CMOS is somewhat challenging due to the materials required, and many candidate superconductors have somewhat impractical transition temperatures below 4 K.

    “While integrated, high-efficiency, single-photon detection has been demonstrated with superconducting detectors (SNSPDs), integration with standard CMOS is somewhat challenging due to the materials required, and many candidate superconductors have somewhat impractical transition temperatures, i.e. below 4 K [224].”

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  • Impressive performance for single-ion readout has been achieved with integrated superconducting single-photon detectors, but implementing high-quality detectors in a platform capable of appropriate shielding to minimize unwanted coupling to ion qubits has not been addressed.

    “While impressive performance for single-ion readout has been achieved with integrated superconducting single-photon detectors [224], implementing high-quality detectors in a platform capable of appropriate shielding to minimize unwanted coupling to the ion qubits has not been addressed.”

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  • Many other aspects of QCCD scaling still in development include coupling multiple surface trap die, control of a sufficient number of electrodes, laser-light generation and delivery, and detection.

    “Many other aspects of QCCD scaling still in development include coupling multiple surface trap die [22,23], control of a sufficient number of electrodes, laser-light generation and delivery [24,25], and detection [26].”

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  1. [42]See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.010501 for additional details of the experimental apparatus, theoretical modeling, and data analysis, which includes Refs. [43–55].
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Todaro, S. L., Verma, V. B., McCormick, K. C., Allcock, D. T. C., Mirin, R. P., Wineland, D. J., Nam, S. W., Wilson, A. C., Leibfried, D., & Slichter, D. H.
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Slichter, D. H.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2021-01-06
Volume
126
Issue
1
Pages
010501-010501
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
OpenAlex
W3046691471
Cited by
98
References
73
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 2
FWCI
6.36
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
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Funders
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
Keywords
trapped-ion qubits, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, beryllium ions, hyperfine qubits, readout fidelity, detector quantum efficiency, self-calibration

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