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Dissipative preparation of W states in trapped ion systems

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Daniel Cole, Jenny Wu, Stephen Erickson, Panyu Hou, Andrew C. Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, Florentin Reiter

Abstract

We present protocols for dissipative entanglement of three trapped-ion qubits, and we discuss in detail a scheme that uses sympathetic cooling as the dissipation mechanism. This scheme relies on tailored destructive interference to generate one of six target W states in a three-ion qubit space. Using a beryllium-magnesium ion crystal as an example system, we theoretically investigate the scheme's performance and the effects of likely error sources, including thermal secular motion of the ion crystal, spontaneous photon scattering, and calibration imperfections. We estimate that a fidelity of 98 % may be achieved in typical trapped ion experiments with 1 ms interaction time. Our schemes belong to a second generation of dissipative schemes that avoid timescale hierarchies for faster preparation of entangled states.
Citation
New Journal of Physics
Volume
23
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac09c8
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Keywords

Trapped ions, atomic physics, quantum computing, quantum information processing, dissipative entanglement generation
Quantum information science, Physics and Atomic / molecular / quantum

Citation

Cole, D. , Wu, J. , Erickson, S. , Hou, P. , Wilson, A. , Leibfried, D. and Reiter, F. (2021), Dissipative preparation of W states in trapped ion systems, New Journal of Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac09c8, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=931901 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created July 2, 2021, Updated January 13, 2024
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