GOOD LIST OF GENERAL QUANTUM COMPUTING AND QUANTUM INFORMATION REFERENCES

GENERAL ARTICLES ON RF (PAUL) ION TRAPS

• "Radiofrequency spectroscopy of stored ions I: Storage," H.G. Dehmelt, Adv. At. Mol. Phys. 3, 53 (1967)
• "Exchange-Collision Technique for the rf Spectroscopy of Stored Ions," F. G. Major and H. G. Dehmelt, Phys. Rev. 170, 91-107 (1968). (Note: first 3.5 pages are an excellent condensed primer on rf traps)
• "Electromagnetic traps for charged and neutral particles", W. Paul, Rev. Mod. Phys, 62, 531,(1990).

TECHNICAL ARTICLES ON TRAPOLOGY

• "Minimization of ion mocromotion in a Paul trap," D. J. Berkeland, J. D. Miller, J. C. Bergquist, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland, J. Appl. Phys. 83, 5025 (1998).
• "Realization of a Filter with Helical Components", A. I. Zverev and H. J. Blinchikoff, IRE Trans. Compon. Parts, 99 (1961).
• "Coaxial resonators with a helical inner core," W. W. MacAlpine and R. O. Schildknecht, Proc. IRE, 2099 (1959).
• "Near-Perfect Simultaneous Measurement of a Qubit Register," M. Acton, K.-A. Brickman, P.C. Haljan, P.J. Lee, L. Deslauriers, C. Monroe, Quantum Inf. Comp. 6, 465 (2006).
• "Phase Trasitions in Anisotropically Confined Ionic Crystals," J. P. Schiffer PRL 70, 6 (1992).
  

GENERAL REVIEWS ON ION TRAP QUANTUM COMPUTING

• "Entangled States of Trapped Atomic Ions," R. Blatt and D. J. Wineland, Nature 453, 1008 - 1014 (2008).
• "Experimental Issues in Coherent Quantum-State Manipulation of Trapped Atomic Ions", D. J. Wineland, C. Monroe, W. M. Itano, D. Leibfried, B. E. King, and D. M. Meekhof, Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 103, 259 (1998).
• "Experimental Primer on the Trapped Ion Quantum Computer," D.J. Wineland, C. Monroe, W.M. Itano, B.E. King, D. Leibfried, D.M. Meekhof, C. Myatt, and C. Wood, Fortschr. Phys. 46 (1998).
• "Quantum Dynamics of Cold Trapped Ions, with Application to Quantum Computation,” D. F. V. James, Applied Physics B 66, 181-190 (1998). (Good treatment of classical normal mode analysis of a linear Coulomb chain.)
• "The ion trap quantum information processor", A. Steane, Appl. Phys. B. 64, 623 (1997).

GENERAL ARTICLES ON QUANTUM COMPUTING

• Battling Decoherence, J. Preskill, Physics Today, June 1999, pp 24-30

• "Quantum computations with cold trapped ions," J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4091 - 4094 (1995).
• "Trapped ions in the strong-excitation regime: Ion interferometry and nonclassical states," J. F. Poyatos, J. I. Cirac, R. Blatt, and P. Zoller, Phys. Rev. A 54, 1532 (1996).
• "Multiparticle Entanglement of Hot Trapped Ions," K. Mølmer and A. Sørensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1835 (1999).
• "Entanglement and quantum computation with ions in thermal motion," A. Sørensen and K. Mølmer , Phys. Rev. A 62, 022311 (2000).
• "Speed Optimized Two-Qubit Gates with Laser Coherent Control Techniques for Ion Trap Quantum Computing," J. J. Garcıa-Ripoll, P. Zoller, and J. I. Cirac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 157901 (2003).
• "Scaling Ion Trap Quantum Computation through Fast Quantum Gates," L.-M. Duan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100502 (2004).

TRAPPED ION QUANTUM SIMULATIONS (THEORY)

• "Wigner crystals of ions as quantum hard drives," J. M. Taylor and T. Calarco, Phys. Rev. A 78, 062331 (2008).
• "Quantum Manipulation of Trapped Ions in Two Dimensional Coulomb Crystals," D. Porras, and J. I. Cirac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 250501 (2006).
• "Effective spin quantum phases in systems of trapped ions," X.-L. Deng, D. Porras, and J. I. Cirac, Phys. Rev. A 72, 063407 (2005).
• "Effective Quantum Spin Systems with Trapped Ions," D. Porras, and J. I. Cirac, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 207901 (2004).

MICROMOTION

• Quantum Logic with a Few Trapped Ions, C. Monroe, W. M. Itano, D. Kielpinski, B. E. King, D. Leibfried,
  C. J. Myatt, Q. A. Turchette, D. J. Wineland, and C. S. Wood, in Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics, eds Daniel H. E. Dubin and Dieter Schneider (American Institute of Physics, 1999), 378.
• Deterministic Entanglement of Two Trapped Ions, Q. A. Turchette, C. S. Wood, B. E. King, C. J. Myatt, D. Leibfried, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland81, 3631 (1998)

• "Robust Long-Distance Entanglement and a Loophole-Free Bell Test with Ions and Photons," C. Simon, W. Irvine, PRL, 91, 110405, (2003)
• "Quantum eraser: A proposed photon correlation experiment concerning observation and "delayed choice" in quantum mechanics," M. Scully, K. Druhl, PRA, 25, 2208, (1982)
• "Creation of entangled states of distant atoms by interference," C. Cabrillo, J. I. Cirac, P. Garcia-Fernandez, and P. Zoller, PRA, 59, 1025, (1999)

• "Architecture for a large-scale ion-trap quantum computer," D. Kielpinski, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland, Nature 417, 709 (2002).
• "A scalable quantum computer with ions in an array of microtraps," J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller, Nature 404, 579 (2000).

• "Heating of Trapped Ions from the Quantum Ground State", Q. A. Turchette, D. Kielpinski, B. E. King, D. Leibfried, D. M. Meekhof, C. J. Myatt, M. A. Rowe, C. A. Sackett, C. S. Wood, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. A 61, 063418-8 (2000). [.PDF, 231Kb]
• "Decoherence and decay of motional quantum states of a trapped atomcoupled to engineered reservoirs", Q. A. Turchette, C. J. Myatt, B. E. King, C. A. Sackett, D. Kielpinski, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. A 62, 053807-1 (2000). [.PDF, 514Kb]
• "Scaling and Suppression of Anomalous Quantum Decoherence in Ion Traps," L. Deslauriers, S. Olmschenk, D. Stick, W. K. Hensinger, J. Sterk, C. Monroe, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 103007 (2006).
• "Temperature Dependence of Electric Field Noise above Gold Surfaces," J. Labaziewicz, Y. Ge, D.R. Leibrandt, S.X. Wang, R. Shewmon, and I.L. Chuang, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 101, 180602 (2008)
• Suppression of Heating Rates in Cryogenic Surface-Electrode Ion Traps, J. Labaziewicz, Y. Ge, P. Antohi, D. Leibrandt, K.R. Brown, and I.L. Chuang, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 100, 013001 (2008)

• "A 303 MHz Frequency Standard based on Trapped Be+ Ions," J. J. Bollinger, D. J. Heinzen, W. M. Itano, S. L. Gilbert, and D. J. Wineland, IEEE Trans. Inst. Meas. 40, 126 (1991).
• "Accurate measurement of the 12.6 GHz 'clock' transition in trapped ¹⁷¹Yb+ ions", PTH Fisk, M.J. Sellars, M.A. Lawn, and C. Coles, IEEE Trans. Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency 44, 344 (1997).

• "Laser cooling of trapped ytterbium ions using a four-level optical-excitation scheme", A. S. Bell, P. Gill, H. A. Klein, A. P. Levick, Chr. Tamm, and D. Schnier, Phys. Rev. A 44, R20 (1991).
• "Observation of an Electric Octupole Transition in a Single Ion", M. Roberts, P. Taylor, G. P. Barwood, P. Gill, H. A. Klein, and W. R. C. Rowley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1876 (1997).
• "Investigation of the ²S_1/2-²D_5/2 clock transition in a single ytterbium ion", P. Taylor, M. Roberts, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. M. Clarke, G. P. Barwood, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Gill, Phys. Rev. A 56, 2699 (1997).
• "Measurement of the ²S_1/2-²D_5/2 clock transition in a single ¹⁷¹Yb+ ion", M. Roberts, P. Taylor, S. V. Gateva-Kostova, R. B. M. Clarke, W. R. C. Rowley, and P. Gill, Phys. Rev. A 60, 2867 (1999).
• "Manipulation and Detection of a Trapped Yb+ Hyperfine Qubit," S. Olmschenk, K. C. Younge, D. L. Moehring, D. Matsukevich, P. Maunz, and C. Monroe, Phys. Rev. A 76, 052314 (2007).

EARLY EXPERIMENTS FROM NIST ON QUANTUM CONTROL OF TRAPPED IONS

• "Experimental entanglement of four particles", C. A. Sackett, D. Kielpinski, B. E. King, C. Langer, V. Meyer, C. J. Myatt, M. Rowe, Q. A. Turchette, W. M. Itano, D. J. Wineland and C. Monroe, Nature 404, 256 (2000). [.PDF, 308Kb]
• "Experimental violation of Bell's equality with efficient detection", M. A. Rowe, D. Kielpinski, V. Meyer, C. A. Sackett, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe and D. J. Wineland, Nature 409, 791 (2001). [.PDF, 187Kb]
• "Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate", C. Monroe, D. M. Meekhof, B. E. King, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4714 (1995). [.PDF, 170Kb]
• "Cooling the Collective Motion of Trapped Ions to Initialize a Quantum Register", B. E. King, C. S. Wood, C. J. Myatt, Q. A. Turchette, D. Leibfried, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev Lett. 81, 1525 (1998). [.PDF, 921Kb]
• "Deterministic Entanglement of Two Trapped Ions", Q. A. Turchette, C. S. Wood, B. E. King, C. J. Myatt, D. Leibfried, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3631 (1998). [.PDF, 256Kb]
• "A 'Schrödinger Cat' Superposition State of an Atom", C. Monroe, D.M. Meekhof, B.E. King, and D.J. Wineland, Science 272, 1131 (1996). [.PDF, 193Kb]
• "Experimental Determination of the Motional Quantum State of a Trapped Atom", D. Leibfried, D. M. Meekhof, B. E. King, C. Monroe, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4281 (1996).
• "Generation of nonclassical motional states of a trapped atom", D. M. Meekhof, C. Monroe, B. E. King, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1796 (1996). [.PDF, 138Kb]
• "Resolved-Sideband Raman Cooling of a Bound Atom to the 3D Zero-Point Energy", C. Monroe, D. M. Meekhof, B. E. King, S. R. Jefferts, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4011 (1995). [.PDF, 147Kb]
• “A Coaxial-Resonator Driven rf (Paul) Ion Trap for Strong Confinement,” S. Jefferts, C. Monroe, E. Bell, D. Wineland, Phys. Rev. A 51, 1235 (1995).