Scaling Quantum Computers with Long Chains of Trapped Ions

Dissertation Committee Chair: Prof. Christopher Monroe
Committee: 
Prof. Norbert Linke
Prof. Alicia Kollár
Prof. Vladimir Manucharyan
Prof. Christopher Jarzynski
Abstract:
Quantum computers promise to solve models of important physical processes, optimize complex cost functions, and challenge cryptography in ways that are intractable using current computers. In order to achieve these promises, quantum computers must both increase in size and decrease error rates.