We present a proposal for protecting states against decoherence, based on the engineering of pointer states. We apply this procedure to the vibrational motion of a trapped ion, and show how to protect qubits, squeezed states, approximate phase eigenstates and superpositions of coherent states.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0009024,
title = {Decoherence, pointer engineering and quantum state protection},
author = {A. R. R. Carvalho and P. Milman and R. L. de Matos Filho and L. Davidovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0009024},
year = {2007}
}