Group seminar at MPQ and Zoom: Error-corrected fermionic quantum processors with neutral atoms

Robert Ott, IQOQI/Innsbruck, Austria
Group seminar at MPQ lecture hall and Zoom
Tuesday, 11 February, 09:00am (MEZ)

Many-body fermionic systems can be simulated in a hardware-efficient manner using a fermionic quantum processor. Neutral atoms trapped in optical potentials can realize such processors, where non-local fermionic statistics are guaranteed at the hardware level. Implementing quantum error correction in this setup is however challenging, due to the atom-number superselection present in atomic systems, that is, the impossibility of creating coherent superpositions of different particle numbers. In this talk, we discuss how to overcome this constraint and present a blueprint for an error-corrected fermionic quantum computer that can be implemented using current experimental capabilities.