Trapped Ion Quantum Computing and Fast Loading at Quantinuum
- When:
- Thursday, September 1, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Where:
- W301/303, Gordon Center for Integrative Science (GCIS), 929 E. 57th Street
- Speaker:
- Jacob Johansen, former UChicago graduate student now working at Quantinuum on ion-trap based quantum computers
- Description:
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Title: Trapped Ion Quantum Computing and Fast Loading at Quantinuum
Abstract: Quantinuum is a company focused on quantum computing, including hardware, software, and theory. We are working to scale trapped ion quantum computers and to build the highest performance quantum computers in the world. I will discuss the as yet unreleased H-2 system, which builds on the strong record of the H-1 systems. I will then consider trap loading as one of the challenges in scaling trapped ion quantum computers and discuss my work toward solving this problem using two-dimensional magneto-optical trapping. Using this method, we demonstrate a 3 order of magnitude improvement in our loading rate.
This talk is intended for graduate students.