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Geometry-Resolved Projection of RF Imbalance to Ion Micromotion in a Same-Phase Dual-RF Blade Trap

Quantum Physics 2026-07-20 v1

Abstract

Common-mode metrics of a high-QQ helical resonator do not determine the residual ion-side field in a dual-electrode drive. We combine a two-node differential RF model with single-electrode finite-element bases to obtain a computation-only, geometry-resolved projection for a same-phase blade trap. For a 3.5 pF external load per branch, the model gives a total effective branch capacitance of 7.640 pF and an HWHM-equivalent full branch-difference scale of 12.7 fF at Qloaded=600Q_{\mathrm{loaded}}=600. The seven-segment geometry gives center and axial-RMS differential field coefficients of 640 V m1^{-1} and 635 V m1^{-1} per differential peak volt. A representative 10 fF mismatch with an effective 0.1 pF balance scale projects to 44.5/44.1 nm center/RMS 171Yb+^{171}\mathrm{Yb}^{+} micromotion at 100 V common peak voltage. Supplementary thermal, bypass-admittance, and tested numerical cases characterize model sensitivity. All reported displacements are projections; no RF-bench or ion-side validation is claimed.

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@article{arxiv.2607.17793,
  title  = {Geometry-Resolved Projection of RF Imbalance to Ion Micromotion in a Same-Phase Dual-RF Blade Trap},
  author = {Chun-Yang Luan and Haiyu Ding and Cheng-Kang Pan and Xiangjie Li and Lin Cheng and Gangxi Wang and Yuting Lei and Peilin Zheng and Shixin Hu and Xiang Zhang and Fei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.17793},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Main text: 4 pages, 3 figures. Supplementary material: 3 pages, 1 figure, and 4 tables