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Controlling Fast Transport of Cold Trapped Ions
Kilian SingerM. HettrichFerdinand Schmidt-kalerS. T. DawkinsT. RusterUlrich PoschingerF. ZieselK. OttAndreas Walthersubject
PhysicsQuantum PhysicsAtomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)FOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomyIon trappingPhysics - Atomic PhysicsIonTrap (computing)Ion trapAtomic physicsQuantum informationQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Ground stateTrapped ion quantum computerQuantum computerdescription
We realize fast transport of ions in a segmented micro-structured Paul trap. The ion is shuttled over a distance of more than 10^4 times its groundstate wavefunction size during only 5 motional cycles of the trap (280 micro meter in 3.6 micro seconds). Starting from a ground-state-cooled ion, we find an optimized transport such that the energy increase is as low as 0.10 $\pm$ 0.01 motional quanta. In addition, we demonstrate that quantum information stored in a spin-motion entangled state is preserved throughout the transport. Shuttling operations are concatenated, as a proof-of-principle for the shuttling-based architecture to scalable ion trap quantum computing.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-02 | Physical Review Letters |