Practical trapped-ion protocols for universal qudit-based quantum computing

PJ Low, BM White, AA Cox, ML Day, C Senko - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
The notion of universal quantum computation can be generalized to multilevel qudits, which
offer advantages in resource usage and algorithmic efficiencies. Trapped ions, which are …

Fast and robust population transfer in two-level quantum systems with dephasing noise and/or systematic frequency errors

XJ Lu, X Chen, A Ruschhaupt, D Alonso, S Guerin… - Physical Review A …, 2013 - APS
We design, by invariant-based inverse engineering, driving fields that invert the population
of a two-level atom in a given time, robustly with respect to dephasing noise and/or …

Cold ion beam in a storage ring as a platform for large-scale quantum computers and simulators: Challenges and directions for research and development

T Shaftan, BB Blinov - Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2021 - APS
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the possibility of constructing a large-scale storage-
ring-type ion-trap system capable of storing, cooling, and controlling a large number of ions …

Scalable hyperfine qubit state detection via electron shelving in the and manifolds in

CL Edmunds, TR Tan, AR Milne, A Singh, MJ Biercuk… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Qubits encoded in hyperfine states of trapped ions are ideal for quantum computation given
their long lifetimes and low sensitivity to magnetic fields, yet they suffer from off-resonant …

Coherent Excitation of the Highly Forbidden Electric Octupole Transition in

HA Fürst, CH Yeh, D Kalincev, AP Kulosa, LS Dreissen… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We report on the first coherent excitation of the highly forbidden S 2 1/2→ F 2 7/2 electric
octupole (E3) transition in a single trapped Yb+ 172 ion, an isotope without nuclear spin …

Trapped Rydberg ions: A new platform for quantum information processing

A Mokhberi, M Hennrich, F Schmidt-Kaler - Advances in Atomic, Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we present an overview of experiments with trapped Rydberg ions and
outline the advantages and challenges of developing applications of this new platform for …

Detection of motional ground state population of a trapped ion using delayed pulses

F Gebert, Y Wan, F Wolf, JC Heip… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Efficient preparation and detection of the motional state of trapped ions is important in many
experiments ranging from quantum computation to precision spectroscopy. We investigate …

Engineering and manipulating topological edge states in a tunable magnon chain

B Li, S Li, Y Wang, Y Zhang, F Li - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose an effective scheme for manipulating the topological edge states in a tunable
magnon chain with yttrium iron garnet spheres. In this setup, the coupling interactions …

Ion–photon entanglement and Bell inequality violation with 138Ba+

C Auchter, CK Chou, TW Noel, BB Blinov - JOSA B, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report on the demonstration of ion–photon entanglement and Bell inequality violation in
a system of trapped Ba138^+ ions. Entanglement between the Zeeman sublevels of the …

Laser cooling with adiabatic transfer on a Raman transition

GP Greve, B Wu, JK Thompson - New Journal of Physics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Sawtooth Wave Adiabatic Passage (SWAP) laser cooling was recently
demonstrated using a narrow-linewidth single-photon optical transition in atomic strontium …