We show how entangled qubits can be encoded as entangled coherent states of two-dimensional centre-of-mass vibrational motion for two ions in an ion trap. The entangled qubit state is equivalent to the canonical Bell state, and we introduce a proposal for entanglement transfer from the two vibrational modes to the electronic states of the two ions in order for the Bell state to be detected by resonance fluorescence shelving methods.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9910057,
title = {Entangled Coherent State Qubits in an Ion Trap},
author = {W. J. Munro and G. J. Milburn and B. C. Sanders},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9910057},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, No figures, accepted to PRA, minor change