Passive dynamical decoupling of trapped ion qubits and qudits

Abstract

We propose a method to dynamically decouple every magnetically sensitive hyperfine sublevel of a trapped ion from magnetic field noise, simultaneously, using integrated circuits to adiabatically rotate its local quantization field. These integrated circuits allow passive adjustment of the effective polarization of any external (control or noise) field. By rotating the ion's quantization direction relative to this field's polarization, we can perform `passive' dynamical decoupling (PDD), inverting the linear Zeeman sensitivity of every hyperfine sublevel. This dynamically decouples the entire ion, rather than just a qubit subspace. Fundamentally, PDD drives the transition $m_{F}\rightarrow -m_{F}$ for every magnetic quantum number $m_{F}$ in the system--with only one operation--indicating it applies to qudits with constant overhead in the dimensionality of the qudit. We show how to perform pulsed and continuous PDD, weighing each technique's insensitivity to external magnetic fields versus their sensitivity to diabaticity and control errors. Finally, we show that we can tune the sinusoidal oscillation of the quantization axis to a motional mode of the crystal in order to perform a laser-free two qubit gate that is insensitive to magnetic field noise.