Surface trap with adjustable ion couplings for scalable and parallel gates

Abstract: We describe the design and operation of a surface-electrode Paul trap for parallel entangling gate implementation. In particular, we demonstrate the possibility of separating or coupling ion motion by adjusting the DC-voltages on a set of electrodes and show the possibility of parallel MS-gate operations for specific voltage configurations. We verify the scalability of this approach and characterize the performance of these gates in the presence of the finite phonon mode occupation and of the finite drift of the phonon frequencies. Additionally, we investigate how the number of ions per individual trapping site and anharmonic potential terms affect the coupling between the wells.