Experimental issues in coherent quantum-state manipulation of trapped atomic ions

• DOI: 10.6028/jres.103.019
• Publication Date: 2012-02-24T15:07:03Z
• Authors: D.J. Wineland; C. Monroe; W.M. Itano; D. Leibfried; B.E. King; D.M. Meekhof
• Keywords: Quantum Logic

Methods for, and limitations to, the generation of entangled states trapped atomic ions are examined.As much as possible, state manipulations described in terms quantum logic operations since conditional dynamics implicit is central to creation entanglement.Keeping with current interest, some experimental issues proposal for trappedion computation by J. I. Cirac P. Zoller (University Innsbruck) discussed.Several possible decoherence mechanisms examined what may be more important these identified.Some potential applications trapped-ions which lie outside immediate realm also discussed.