Photo of the Week: The Enchilada Trap

As New Mexico’s quantum industry grows, Sandia National Laboratories has taken ion traps—a central component for a particular mode of quantum computing—to a new level with a device called the Enchilada Trap. An ion trap is a type of microchip that holds electrically charged atoms, or ions. The Enchilada Trap enables scientists to build more powerful machines to advance quantum computing. The development was created in partnership with Duke University through the Quantum Systems Accelerator and is funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science. Sandia and Duke operate several traps to perform quantum algorithms.

Photo Credit: Sandian Craig Fritz