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Quantum memory device capable of storing quantum information for a long period of time is one of the fundamental ingredients to realize large-scale quantum computation and quantum communication. Comparing with other quantum computation platforms, one of the advantages of the trapped-ion system is the long intrinsic coherence time. Before our work, the longest single-qubit coherence time in trapped-ion systems has been achieved to be less than 1 minute. It is discovered that the main limitation for the coherence time is the motional mode heating and the environment noise that includes the contributions from the magnetic field fluctuation and the phase noise of the microwaves. In a hybrid trapping system simultaneously trapping 171Yb+ and 138Ba+ ions, single-qubit quantum memories with coherence time longer than 10 minutes can be realized by applying sympathetic cooling and dynamical decoupling. This technique may have some value as the building blocks for quantum cryptography protocols and hybrid quantum computation platforms.
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Keywords:
- quantum memory /
- trapped ions /
- sympathetic cooling /
- dynamical decoupling
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图 1 实验装置和控制系统 (a) 同时囚禁
${{}^{171}{\rm Yb}^+ }$ 离子和$ ^{138}{\rm Ba}^+ $ 离子的混合囚禁系统及相关能谱图; (b) 微波和激光信号的控制系统Figure 1. Experimental setup and control system: (a) Hybrid trapping system that traps
$ ^{171}{\rm Yb}^+ $ and$ ^{138}{\rm Ba}^+ $ simultaneously; (b) control system for generating laser and microwave signals.
图 2 动力学解耦脉冲序列 (a) CPMG方案; (b)
$ {\rm KDD}_{xy} $ 方案Figure 2. Pulse sequence for dyanmical decoupling: (a) CPMG protocol; (b)
${\rm{KD}}{{\rm{D}}_{{xy}}}$ protocol.
图 3 频谱分析仪测得的典型相位涨落噪声谱
Figure 3. Typical phase noise measured by spectrum analyzer.
图 4 (a) 执行包含
$ N $ 个脉冲的动力学解耦序列, 不同的总演化时间$ T $ 对应的条纹对比度; (b) 通过分析图(a)中的数据得到的环境噪声谱Figure 4. (a) Ramsey contrasts depending on the total evolution time T for various numbers of pulses N in the dynamical decoupling sequence; (b) the noise spectra analized from the measured data in Fig. (a).
图 5 序列保真度随序列长度的变化
Figure 5. Sequence fidelity pl as a function of the sequence length l.
图 6 测量单量子比特相干时间的脉冲序列
Figure 6. Pulse sequences for measuring the single-qubit coherent time.
图 7 单量子比特六个不同初态的相干时间, 其中
$\left| \uparrow \right\rangle $ 和$\left| \downarrow \right\rangle $ , 对应的相干时间是(4740$ \pm $ 1760) s; 其他四个初态对应的相干时间为(667$ \pm $ 17) s; 图中的误差线代表标准差Figure 7. Single-qubit coherece time for six different initial states. For
$\left| \uparrow \right\rangle $ and$\left| \downarrow \right\rangle $ , the coherence time is (4740$ \pm $ 1760) s. For the other four initial states, the coherence time is (667$ \pm $ 17) s. The error bars are the standard deviation. -
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