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Single-particle quantum tunneling in ionic traps

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We describe a proposal to probe the quantum tunneling mechanism of an individual ion trapped in a double-well electromagnetic potential. The time-evolution of the probability of fluorescence measurement of the electronic ground state is employed to characterize the single-particle tunneling mechanism. The proposed scheme can be used to implement quantum information devices.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0210087,
  title  = {Single-particle quantum tunneling in ionic traps},
  author = {R. M. Serra and C. J. Villas-Boas and M. H. Y. Moussa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0210087},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Final version published in J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt