Trapped Ion Qubit Gates and Entanglement Driven by an Integrated Photonic Laser
Abstract
Trapped ions are a leading technology for quantum computing, but their reliance on bespoke tabletop laser and optical systems remains a major obstacle to scaling and robustness. Integrated silicon nitride lasers, compatible with future monolithic integration with surface electrode ion traps, have recently demonstrated frequency-selective qubit state preparation and measurement as well as interrogation of an optical clock transition. However, coherent qubit gates impose even more stringent requirements on laser phase noise, and their implementation with integrated laser sources has remained an outstanding challenge. Here, we use a visible-wavelength integrated Brillouin laser stabilized to an integrated coil resonator to drive coherent single- and two-qubit gates with \Sr optical qubits. We measure an average single-qubit fidelity of 99.61%± 0.03% per Clifford gate with randomized benchmarking and use a two-qubit Mølmer-Sørensen interaction to generate an entangled Bell state with a fidelity of 92.35% ± 1.50%. The qubit exhibits a bare Ramsey coherence time of 659 ± 9 μs, more than a tenfold improvement over our previous implementation, which extends to 1.750 ± 0.033~ms with an echo. These results demonstrate, for the first time, that integrated visible-wavelength narrow-linewidth photonic lasers can meet the phase-noise requirements for coherent quantum logic with trapped ion optical qubits, providing a path for scalable optical systems integrated within trapped ion quantum processors.
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BibTeX
@misc{caron2026trapped,
title = {{Trapped Ion Qubit Gates and Entanglement Driven by an Integrated Photonic Laser}},
author = {Chris Caron and Zhenyu Wei and Andrei Isichenko and David Heim and Meiting Song and Nitesh Chauhan and Nick Montifiore and Kaikai Liu and Josiah Dill and Daniel J. Blumenthal and Robert J. Niffenegger},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.07708},
eprint = {2609.07708},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07708},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Trapped Ion Qubit Gates and Entanglement Driven by an Integrated Photonic Laser
AU - Chris Caron
AU - Zhenyu Wei
AU - Andrei Isichenko
AU - David Heim
AU - Meiting Song
AU - Nitesh Chauhan
AU - Nick Montifiore
AU - Kaikai Liu
AU - Josiah Dill
AU - Daniel J. Blumenthal
AU - Robert J. Niffenegger
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.07708
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07708
AB - Trapped ions are a leading technology for quantum computing, but their reliance on bespoke tabletop laser and optical systems remains a major obstacle to scaling and robustness. Integrated silicon nitride lasers, compatible with future monolithic integration with surface electrode ion traps, have recently demonstrated frequency-selective qubit state preparation and measurement as well as interrogation of an optical clock transition. However, coherent qubit gates impose even more stringent requirements on laser phase noise, and their implementation with integrated laser sources has remained an outstanding challenge. Here, we use a visible-wavelength integrated Brillouin laser stabilized to an integrated coil resonator to drive coherent single- and two-qubit gates with \Sr optical qubits. We measure an average single-qubit fidelity of 99.61%± 0.03% per Clifford gate with randomized benchmarking and use a two-qubit Mølmer-Sørensen interaction to generate an entangled Bell state with a fidelity of 92.35% ± 1.50%. The qubit exhibits a bare Ramsey coherence time of 659 ± 9 μs, more than a tenfold improvement over our previous implementation, which extends to 1.750 ± 0.033~ms with an echo. These results demonstrate, for the first time, that integrated visible-wavelength narrow-linewidth photonic lasers can meet the phase-noise requirements for coherent quantum logic with trapped ion optical qubits, providing a path for scalable optical systems integrated within trapped ion quantum processors.
ER -