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Optical Tweezing Resolves Pivotal Bottleneck in Quantum Computing | Aug 2022

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TOKYO, Aug. 9, 2022 — A research team in Japan’s Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) has executed a two-qubit gate — a fundamental operation for quantum computing — that operates in just 6.5 ns. The team believes that its advancement is poised to support a next wave of success in ultrafast quantum computing.

Ultrafast quantum computing that relies on lasers to manipulate cold atoms trapped with optical tweezers is expected to support a quantum computer architecture that breaks through the limitations of the superconducting and trapped-ion types currently in development, the researchers said.

Cold-atom quantum computers are based on laser cooling and trapping techniques, which yielded Nobel Prizes in 1997 and 2018. These techniques, together with additional breakthroughs, have enabled scientists to develop the ability to arrange arrays of cold atoms in arbitrary shapes with optical tweezers, and to observe each one individually.

Because atoms are natural quantum systems, they are favored as qubits. In addition, because these atoms are well isolated from the surrounding environment and independent of each other, the coherence time of a qubit can reach several seconds. A two-qubit gate, which is considered an essential basic arithmetic element for quantum computing, is performed by exciting one electron of the atom into a giant electronic orbital, called a Rydberg orbital.

The cold-atom platform has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum computer hardware. The platform can be easily scaled up while maintaining high coherence compared to the superconducting and trapped-ion types that are currently being developed.


Conceptual diagram of the two-qubit gate. In the system, two atoms captured in optical tweezers (pink light), with a separation of 1 μm, are manipulated by a ultrafast laser pulse (blue light) shone for only 10 ps. The two-qubit gate overcomes a fundamental bottleneck in cold-atom quantum computing, and it aims to support the development of quantum computer hardware that breaks through the limitations of the superconducting and trapped-ion types currently in development. Courtesy of Takafumi Tomita/ IMS.


Quantum gates are considered the basic arithmetic elements that make up quantum computing; they correspond to the logic gates such as “AND” and “OR” in conventional classical computers. There are one-qubit gates that manipulate the state of a single qubit and two-qubit gates that generate quantum entanglement between two qubits. The two-qubit gate is the source of the high-speed performance of quantum computers and is technically challenging.

In the current research, the implemented two-qubit gate is called a “controlled-Z gate,” which is an operation that flips the quantum superposition of a first qubit from 0 + 1 to 0 − 1 depending on the state (0 or 1) of a second qubit. The accuracy, or fidelity, of the quantum gate is degraded by noise from the external environment and the operating laser, which makes the development of quantum computers difficult.

Since the timescale of noise is generally slower than 1 μs, if a quantum gate that is sufficiently faster than this interval can be realized, it will be possible to avoid the degradation of calculation accuracy due to noise and avoid a bottleneck that has so far inhibited realizing a practical quantum computer.

The team used rubidium atoms, in the gas phase, cooled to almost absolute zero, and trapped in optical tweezers separated by a distance of roughly 1 μm, to realize what it said is the fastest two-qubit gate between two single atoms to be demonstrated.

After it arranged the atoms, the team irradiated them with ultrashort laser pulses that emitted light for 1/100 billionth of a second. The researchers observed that two electrons trapped respectively in the smallest orbitals of two adjacent atoms were knocked into Rydberg orbitals. The interaction between these giant atoms then led to a periodic, back-and-forth exchange of the orbital shape and electron energy occurring with a period of 6.5 ns, which was more than two orders of magnitude faster than noise.

The research was published in Nature Photonics (www.doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01047-2).

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