QUEST 2025
Time-Division Multiplexing for Trap Electrode Control Toward Large-Scale Trapped-Ion Quantum Processors Based on QCCD Architecture
Ryutaro Ohira (1), Masanari Miyamoto (2), Shinichi Morisaka (1, 3), Ippei Nakamura (4), Atsushi Noguchi (4, 5, 6) Utako Tanaka (2, 3, 7), and Takefumi Miyoshi (1, 3, 8) (1) QuEL, Inc. (2) Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka (3) Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology, The University of Osaka (4) Komaba Institute for Science (KIS), The University of Tokyo (5) RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC) (6) Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS) (7) National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (8) e-trees. Japan, Inc.
Developing scalable control electronics is one of the central challenges in building large-scale trapped-ion quantum processors. Conventional QCCD-based systems typically assign one DAC per trap electrode, which becomes impractical as the number of electrodes grows due to the resulting complexity in hardware and wiring. To mitigate this bottleneck, we have developed a time-division multiplexing (TDM) approach that allows a single high-speed DAC to sequentially generate voltage signals for multiple electrodes. In this work, we describe the architecture of our TDM-based control system [1] and present experimental results demonstrating its capability to operate a surface-electrode ion trap [2].
Acknowledgement
This work was supported by MEXT Q-LEAP (Grant Number JPMXS0120319794), JST (Grant Number JPMJPF2014), and JST Moonshot R&D (Grant Numbers JPMJMS226A, JPMJMS2063).
References:
[1] R. Ohira, S. Morisaka, I. Nakamura, A. Noguchi, and T. Miyoshi, arXiv:2504.01815 (2025).
[2] R. Ohira, M. Miyamoto, S. Morisaka, I. Nakamura, A. Noguchi, U. Tanaka, and T. Miyoshi1, arXiv:2508.04093 (2025).
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