{"id":167516,"date":"2023-07-14T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/toward-ternary-quantum-information-processing-success-generating-two-qutrit-entangling-gates-with-high-fidelity"},"modified":"2023-07-14T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T17:23:57","slug":"toward-ternary-quantum-information-processing-success-generating-two-qutrit-entangling-gates-with-high-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/toward-ternary-quantum-information-processing-success-generating-two-qutrit-entangling-gates-with-high-fidelity","title":{"rendered":"Toward ternary quantum information processing: Success generating two-qutrit entangling gates with high fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toward-ternary-quantum-information-processing-success-generating-two-qutrit-entangling-gates-with-high-fidelity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory (QNL) achieved a technical breakthrough using qutrits\u2014three-level systems\u2014on a superconducting quantum processor.<\/p>\n<p>The team successfully entangled two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/transmon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transmon<\/a> qutrits with gate fidelities significantly higher than in previously reported works, thus getting closer to enabling ternary logic that can encode more information than their binary counterparts\u2014qubits.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> in December 2022 and featured as an editor\u2019s highlight, this experimental success pushes forward AQT\u2019s qutrit research and development, including previous experimental successes published in 2021 in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.11.021010\">Physical Review X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.126.210504\">Physical Review Letters<\/a>. Ternary quantum information processors offer significant potential advantages in quantum simulation and error correction, as well as the ability to improve certain quantum algorithms and applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interdisciplinary team at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory (QNL) achieved a technical breakthrough using qutrits\u2014three-level systems\u2014on a superconducting quantum processor. The team successfully entangled two transmon qutrits with gate fidelities significantly higher than in previously reported works, thus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}