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Robust against noise, geometric-phase swap gates bring stability to quantum operations

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed highly stable quantum gates using geometric phases with neutral atoms, making them robust against experimental noise. The technique allows for simultaneous operations on thousands of qubits and could advance quantum computing with neutral atoms.

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Robust against noise, geometric-phase swap gates bring stability to quantum operations Gaby Clark scientific editor Robert Egan associate editor Researchers at ETH Zurich have realized particularly stable quantum logical operations with qubits made of neutral…

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Since these operations, called quantum gates, are based on geometric phases, they are extremely robust against experimental noise and can be used in quantum computers in the future.

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Quantum bits, or qubits, which are required for building quantum computers, come in different kinds.

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Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed highly stable quantum gates using geometric phases with neutral atoms, making them robust against experimental noise. The technique allows for simultaneous operations on thousands of qubits and could advance quantum computing with neutral atoms.

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Claim 1: “Esslinger's team plans to combine swap gates with a quantum gas microscope for selective qubit manipulation.”
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Claim 2: “Researchers at ETH Zurich have realized particularly stable quantum logical operations with qubits made of neutral atoms.”
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Claim 3: “The tunnel effect depends very strongly on the intensity of the laser light, making it sensitive to imperfections.”
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Claim 4: “The researchers demonstrated 'half'-swap gates using atomic collisions, which entangle qubits.”
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Claim 5: “The gate can be applied to several thousands of qubits simultaneously.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ETH Zurich (German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich; English: Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854, the university primari…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of people associated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The European Metropolitan Region of Zurich (EMRZ), also Greater Zurich Area (GZA, German Zürcher Wirtschaftsraum, Metropolregion Zürich), the metropolitan area surrounding Zurich, is one of Europe’s e…
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Claim 6: “A team at ETH Zurich led by Esslinger realized a swap gate using a geometric phase with high quality.”
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Claim 7: “The swap gate exchanges the states of two qubits with 99.91% precision for 17,000 qubit pairs.”
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Claim 8: “Neutral atoms trapped with laser light make it easy to realize several thousand qubits in a single system.”
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Claim 9: “Using fermionic potassium atoms in optical lattices results in a geometric phase independent of manipulation speed and laser intensity fluctuations.”
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