Trapped Rydberg ions are a promising novel approach to quantum computing and simulations. They are envisaged to combine the exquisite control of trapped ion qubits with the fast two-qubit Rydberg gates already demonstrated in neutral atom experiments. Coherent Rydberg excitation is a key requirement for these gates. Here, we carry out the first coherent Rydberg excitation of an ion and perform a single-qubit Rydberg gate, thus demonstrating basic elements of a trapped Rydberg ion quantum computer.
@article{arxiv.1708.06387,
title = {Coherent control of a single trapped Rydberg ion},
author = {Gerard Higgins and Fabian Pokorny and Chi Zhang and Quentin Bodart and Markus Hennrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06387},
year = {2017}
}
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4 pages and 4 figures in the main body, 6 pages and 5 figures in total