Combining Atoms, ions, and optical tweezers for quantum computing
Speaker: Arghavan Savafi-Naini
Affiliation: University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Trapped-ions are one of the most mature platforms for quantum computation and quantum simulation. In trapped-ion quantum simulators the spin-spin interactions mediated by the collective motion of the ions in the crystal (phonons) are of the form 1/r^a where 0<a<3. I will show that additional optical tweezer potentials can be used to engineer the phonon spectrum for programmable quantum simulation and new quantum computing architectures. Finally, I will discuss how adding one more ingredient, namely Rydberg atoms, can give us even more freedom and a new way of exploiting ion mediated interactions for infinite range Rydberg blockade and facilitation.
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Venue
Room: 222