Refocusing two qubit gate noise for trapped ions by composite pulses

TL;DR

This paper introduces a composite pulse technique to reduce amplitude noise in two-qubit gates for trapped ions, aiming to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computation by refocusing ultrafast entangling gate components.

Contribution

It proposes a novel composite pulse method to refocus two-qubit gate noise, specifically addressing amplitude noise in trapped ion systems, enhancing gate fidelity.

Findings

Simulations show noise reduction to fault-tolerance levels

Composite pulses effectively refocus ultrafast entangling gates

Approach targets shot-to-shot amplitude noise

Abstract

Amplitude noise which inflicts a random two qubit term is one of the main obstacles preventing the implementation of a high fidelity two-body gate below the fault tolerance threshold. This noise is difficult to refocus as any refocusing technique could only tackle noise with frequency below the operation rate. Since the two qubit gate speed is normally the slowest rate in the system, it constitutes the last bottleneck towards an implementation of a gate below the fault tolerant threshold. Here we propose to use composite pulses as a dynamical decoupling approach, in order to reduce two qubit gate noise for trapped ions systems. This is done by refocusing the building blocks of ultrafast entangling gates, where the amplitude noise is reduced to shot-to-shot (STS) noise. We present detailed simulations showing that the fault-tolerance threshold could be achieved with the proposed approach.