Quantum gate teleportation between separated qubits in a trapped-ion processor.

Wan, Yong; Kienzler, Daniel; Erickson, Stephen D; Mayer, Karl H; Tan, Ting Rei; Wu, Jenny J; Vasconcelos, Hilma M; Glancy, Scott et al. · Science · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Large-scale quantum computers will require quantum gate operations between widely separated qubits. A method for implementing such operations, known as quantum gate teleportation (QGT), requires only local operations, classical communication, and shared entanglement. We demonstrate QGT in a scalable architecture by deterministically teleporting a controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate between two qubits in spatially separated locations in an ion trap. The entanglement fidelity of our teleported CNOT is in the interval (0.845, 0.872) at the 95% confidence level. The implementation combines ion shuttling with individually addressed single-qubit rotations and detections, same- and mixed-species two-qubit gates, and real-time conditional operations, thereby demonstrating essential tools for scaling trapped-ion quantum computers combined in a single device.