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Prospects for fast Rydberg gates on an atom chip

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Atom chips are a promising candidate for a scalable architecture for quantum information processing provided a universal set of gates can be implemented with high fidelity. The difficult part in achieving universality is the entangling two-qubit gate. We consider a Rydberg phase gate for two atoms trapped on a chip and employ optimal control theory to find the shortest gate that still yields a reasonable gate error. Our parameters correspond to a situation where the Rydberg blockade regime is not yet reached. We discuss the role of spontaneous emission and the effect of noise from the chip surface on the atoms in the Rydberg state.

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  1. Institut für Quanteninformationsverarbeitung, Universität Ulm, 89081, Ulm, Germany

    Matthias M. Müller & Tommaso Calarco

  2. Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476, Potsdam, Germany

    Harald R. Haakh & Carsten Henkel

  3. Institut für Physik, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, 34132, Kassel, Germany

    Christiane P. Koch

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Müller, M.M., Haakh, H.R., Calarco, T. et al. Prospects for fast Rydberg gates on an atom chip. Quantum Inf Process 10, 771 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-011-0296-0

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