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Modular quantum computation in a trapped ion system.


ABSTRACT: Modern computation relies crucially on modular architectures, breaking a complex algorithm into self-contained subroutines. A client can then call upon a remote server to implement parts of the computation independently via an application programming interface (API). Present APIs relay only classical information. Here we implement a quantum API that enables a client to estimate the absolute value of the trace of a server-provided unitary operation [Formula: see text]. We demonstrate that the algorithm functions correctly irrespective of what unitary [Formula: see text] the server implements or how the server specifically realizes [Formula: see text]. Our experiment involves pioneering techniques to coherently swap qubits encoded within the motional states of a trapped [Formula: see text] ion, controlled on its hyperfine state. This constitutes the first demonstration of modular computation in the quantum regime, providing a step towards scalable, parallelization of quantum computation.

SUBMITTER: Zhang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6795904 | biostudies-other | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Modular quantum computation in a trapped ion system.

Zhang Kuan K   Thompson Jayne J   Zhang Xiang X   Shen Yangchao Y   Lu Yao Y   Zhang Shuaining S   Ma Jiajun J   Vedral Vlatko V   Gu Mile M   Kim Kihwan K  

Nature communications 20191016 1


Modern computation relies crucially on modular architectures, breaking a complex algorithm into self-contained subroutines. A client can then call upon a remote server to implement parts of the computation independently via an application programming interface (API). Present APIs relay only classical information. Here we implement a quantum API that enables a client to estimate the absolute value of the trace of a server-provided unitary operation [Formula: see text]. We demonstrate that the alg  ...[more]

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