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October 8, 2020

Researchers performed key experiment on five ion-based qubits

Researchers optimized laser pulses to execute parallel entangling gates between different pairs of qubits in a string of five ions.

Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant PHY 1430094.

Learn more in the University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute news story Ions clear another hurdle toward scaled-up quantum computing. (Date image taken: 2019; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Oct. , 2020)

Credit: E. Edwards/Joint Quantum Institute


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