Ion Coulomb Crystals in Storage Rings for Quantum Information Science

Understand

Quantum information science is a growing field that promises to take computing into a new age of higher performance and larger scale computing as well as being capable of solving problems classical computers are incapable of solving.

• The outstanding issue in practical quantum computing today is scaling up the system while maintaining interconnectivity of the qubits and low error rates in qubit operations to be able to implement error correction and fault-tolerant operations.
• Trapped ion qubits offer long coherence times that allow error correction.
• However, error correction algorithms require large numbers of qubits to work properly.