Individual-Ion Addressing and Readout in a Penning Trap

We implement individual addressing and readout of ions in a rigidly rotating planar crystal in a compact, permanent magnet Penning trap. The crystal of ^{40}Ca^{+} is trapped and stabilized without defects via a rotating triangular potential. The trapped ion fluorescence is detected in the rotating frame for parallel readout. The qubit is encoded in the metastable D_{5/2} manifold enabling the use of high-power near-infrared laser systems for qubit operations. Addressed σ_{z} operations are realized with a focused ac Stark shifting laser beam. We demonstrate addressing of ions near the center of the crystal and at large radii. Simulations show that the current addressing operation fidelity is limited to ∼97% by the ion's thermal extent for the in-plane modes near the Doppler limit, but this could be improved to infidelities <10^{-3} with sub-Doppler cooling. The techniques demonstrated in this Letter complete the set of operations for quantum simulation with the platform.

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Physical Review Letters
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2024-10-23
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.133.173201
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Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
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Individual-Ion Addressing and Readout in a Penning Trap

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Individual-Ion Addressing and Readout in a Penning Trap

Kenton R. Brown, Brian C. Sawyer, Brian J. McMahon, Creston D. Herold
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Abstract

We implement individual addressing and readout of ions in a rigidly rotating planar crystal in a compact, permanent magnet Penning trap. The crystal of ^{40}Ca^{+} is trapped and stabilized without defects via a rotating triangular potential. The trapped ion fluorescence is detected in the rotating frame for parallel readout. The qubit is encoded in the metastable D_{5/2} manifold enabling the use of high-power near-infrared laser systems for qubit operations. Addressed σ_{z} operations are realized with a focused ac Stark shifting laser beam. We demonstrate addressing of ions near the center of the crystal and at large radii. Simulations show that the current addressing operation fidelity is limited to ∼97% by the ion's thermal extent for the in-plane modes near the Doppler limit, but this could be improved to infidelities <10^{-3} with sub-Doppler cooling. The techniques demonstrated in this Letter complete the set of operations for quantum simulation with the platform.

Physical Review LettersVol. 133(17)
Georgia Institute of Technology (US), Georgia Tech Research Institute
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Openalex Percentile: Top 19%
Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
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