DQC Seminar Series: 3D printed ion traps for quantum computing
Abstract: Trapped atomic ions are one of the leading qubit candidates for quantum computing. The fidelity of quantum gates and the noise performance of a quantum processor built on this platform depends on the degree of isolation between the classical environment and the ions. One leading noise source is electric field noise. Additive manufacturing has introduced the possibility of generating accurate, replicable and scalable ion traps with geometries that promise to reduce sensitivity to this noise source. In this talk, I will describe miniaturized RF Paul traps that we have fabricated at LLNL using high-resolution 3D printing approach based on two-photon polymerization and share the results of initial tests.
This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
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BIO: Dr. Kristin (Kristi) Beck is a staff scientist in the LLNL Quantum Coherent Device Physics Group and the director of the Livermore Center for Quantum Science. Her research interests span the quantum computing stack, from device hardware and gate design to testbed architecture. Her current research portfolio includes testing novel control hardware and working with optimal control generation for superconducting transmons; and designing, modeling and testing 3D printed traps for trapped ions.
Kristi joined LLNL in 2020. Prior to LLNL, Kristi was a senior physicist at the startup quantum computing company IonQ. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland in 2018. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 2016, her M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge in 2010 and her BS. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 2009. Her scholarship has been recognized through several fellowships including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Winston Churchill Scholarship.
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