Individually Addressed Quantum Gate Interactions Using Dynamical Decoupling

A leading approach to implementing small-scale quantum computers has been to use laser beams, focused to micron spot sizes, to address and entangle trapped ions in a linear crystal. Here we propose a method to implement individually addressed entangling gate interactions, but driven by microwave fields, with a spatial resolution of a few microns, corresponding to 10−5 microwave wavelengths. We experimentally demonstrate the ability to suppress the effect of the state-dependent force using a single ion, and find the required interaction introduces 3.7(4)×10−4 error per emulated gate in a single-qubit benchmarking sequence. We model the scheme for a 17-qubit ion crystal, and find that any pair of ions should be addressable with an average crosstalk error of approximately 10−5. Published by the American Physical Society 2024