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Helios: A 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum computer

Authors

  • Anthony Ransford
  • M. S. Allman
  • Jake Arkinstall
  • J. P. Campora
  • Samuel F. Cooper
  • Robert D. Delaney
  • Joan M. Dreiling
  • Brian Estey
  • Caroline Figgatt
  • Alex Hall
  • Ali A. Husain
  • Akhil Isanaka
  • Colin J. Kennedy
  • Nikhil Kotibhaskar
  • Ivaylo S. Madjarov
  • Karl Mayer
  • Alistair R. Milne
  • Annie J. Park
  • Adam P. Reed
  • Riley Ancona
  • Molly P. Andersen
  • Pablo Andres-Martinez
  • Will Angenent
  • Liz Argueta
  • Benjamin Arkin
  • Leonardo Ascarrunz
  • William Baker
  • Corey Barnes
  • John Bartolotta
  • Jordan Berg
  • Ryan Besand
  • Bryce Bjork
  • Matt Blain
  • Paul Blanchard
  • Robin Blume-Kohout
  • Matt Bohn
  • Agustin Borgna
  • Daniel Y. Botamanenko
  • Robert Boutelle
  • Natalie Brown
  • Grant T. Buckingham
  • Nathaniel Q. Burdick
  • William Cody Burton
  • Varis Carey
  • Christopher J. Carron
  • Joe Chambers
  • John Children
  • Victor E. Colussi
  • Steven Crepinsek
  • Andrew Cureton
  • Joe Davies
  • Daniel Davis
  • Matthew DeCross
  • David Deen
  • Conor Delaney
  • Davide DelVento
  • B. J. DeSalvo
  • Jason Dominy
  • Ross Duncan
  • Vanya Eccles
  • Alec Edgington
  • Neal Erickson
  • Stephen Erickson
  • Christopher T. Ertsgaard
  • Bruce Evans
  • Tyler Evans
  • Maya I. Fabrikant
  • Andrew Fischer
  • Cameron Foltz
  • Michael Foss-Feig
  • David Francois
  • Brad Freyberg
  • Charles Gao
  • Robert Garay
  • Jane Garvin
  • David M. Gaudiosi
  • Christopher N. Gilbreth
  • Josh Giles
  • Erin Glynn
  • Jeff Graves
  • Azure Hansen
  • David Hayes
  • Lukas Heidemann
  • Bob Higashi
  • Tyler Hilbun
  • Jordan Hines
  • Ariana Hlavaty
  • Kyle Hoffman
  • Ian M. Hoffman
  • Craig Holliman
  • Isobel Hooper
  • Bob Horning
  • James Hostetter
  • Daniel Hothem
  • Jack Houlton
  • Jared Hout
  • Ross Hutson
  • Ryan T. Jacobs
  • Trent Jacobs
  • Melf Johannsen
  • Jacob Johansen
  • Loren Jones
  • Sydney Julian
  • Ryan Jung
  • Aidan Keay
  • Todd Klein
  • Mark Koch
  • Ryo Kondo
  • Chang Kong
  • Asa Kosto
  • Alan Lawrence
  • David Liefer
  • Michelle Lollie
  • Dominic Lucchetti
  • Nathan K. Lysne
  • Christian Lytle
  • Callum MacPherson
  • Andrew Malm
  • Spencer Mather
  • Brian Mathewson
  • Daniel Maxwell
  • Lauren McCaffrey
  • Hannah McDougall
  • Robin Mendoza
  • Michael Mills
  • Richard Morrison
  • Louis Narmour
  • Nhung Nguyen
  • Lora Nugent
  • Scott Olson
  • Daniel Ouellette
  • Jeremy Parks
  • Zach Peters
  • Jessie Petricka
  • Juan M. Pino
  • Frank Polito
  • Matthias Preidl
  • Gabriel Price
  • Timothy Proctor
  • McKinley Pugh
  • Noah Ratcliff
  • Daisy Raymondson
  • Peter Rhodes
  • Conrad Roman
  • Craig Roy
  • Ciaran Ryan-Anderson
  • Fernando Betanzo Sanchez
  • George Sangiolo
  • Tatiana Sawadski
  • Andrew Schaffer
  • Peter Schow
  • Jon Sedlacek
  • Henry Semenenko
  • Peter Shevchuk
  • Susan Shore
  • Peter Siegfried
  • Kartik Singhal
  • Seyon Sivarajah
  • Thomas Skripka
  • Lucas Sletten
  • Ben Spaun
  • R. Tucker Sprenkle
  • Paul Stoufer
  • Mariel Tader
  • Stephen F. Taylor
  • Travis H. Thompson
  • Raanan Tobey
  • Anh Tran
  • Tam Tran
  • Grahame Vittorini
  • Curtis Volin
  • Jim Walker
  • Sam White
  • Douglas Wilson
  • Quinn Wolf
  • Chester Wringe
  • Kevin Young
  • Jian Zheng
  • Kristen Zuraski
  • Charles H. Baldwin
  • Alex Chernoguzov
  • John P. Gaebler
  • Steven J. Sanders
  • Brian Neyenhuis
  • Russell Stutz
  • Justin G. Bohnet

Abstract

We report on Quantinuum Helios, a 98-qubit trapped-ion quantum processor based on the quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) architecture. Helios features $^{137}$Ba$^{+}$ hyperfine qubits, all-to-all connectivity enabled by a rotatable ion storage ring connecting two quantum operation regions by a junction, speed improvements from parallelized operations, and a new software stack with real-time compilation of dynamic programs. Averaged over all operational zones in the system, we achieve average infidelities of $2.5(1)\times10^{-5}$ for single-qubit gates, $7.9(2)\times10^{-4}$ for two-qubit gates, and $4.8(6)\times10^{-4}$ for state preparation and measurement, none of which are fundamentally limited and likely able to be improved. These component infidelities are predictive of system-level performance in both random Clifford circuits and random circuit sampling, the latter demonstrating that Helios operates well beyond the reach of classical simulation and establishes a new frontier of fidelity and complexity for quantum computers.

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2025-11-07