Quantum state manipulation of trapped atomic ions
Quantum Physics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
A single laser-cooled and trapped 9Be+ ion is used to investigate methods of coherent quantum-state synthesis and quantum logic. We create and characterize nonclassical states of motion including "Schroedinger-cat" states. A fundamental quantum logic gate is realized which uses two states of the quantized ion motion and two ion internal states as qubits. We explore some of the applications for, and problems in realizing, quantum computation based on multiple trapped ions.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9705022,
title = {Quantum state manipulation of trapped atomic ions},
author = {D. J. Wineland and C. Monroe and D. M. Meekhof and B. E. King and D. Leibfried and W. M. Itano and J. C. Bergquist and D. Berkeland and J. J. Bollinger and J. Miller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9705022},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Postscript only. 21 pages text, 5 figures., Proc. Workshop on Quantum Computing, Santa Barbara, CA, Dec. 1996, Submitted to Proc. Roy. Soc. A