Single qubit manipulation in a microfabricated surface electrode ion trap

We trap individual ^171 Yb ^+ ions in a surface trap microfabricated on a silicon substrate, and demonstrate a complete set of high fidelity single qubit operations for the hyperfine qubit. Trapping times exceeding 20 min without laser cooling, and heating rates as low as 0.8 quanta ms ^−1 , indicat...

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Main Authors: Emily Mount, So-Young Baek, Matthew Blain, Daniel Stick, Daniel Gaultney, Stephen Crain, Rachel Noek, Taehyun Kim, Peter Maunz, Jungsang Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093018