Selected Ion Trap and Quantum Computing Publications

GENERAL ARTICLES ON 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)

• "Electromagnetic traps for charged and neutral particles", W. Paul, Rev. Mod. Phys, 62, 531,(1990).

GENERAL REVIEWS ON ION TRAP QUANTUM COMPUTING

• "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). [.PDF, 683Kb]

• "The ion trap quantum information processor", A. Steane, Appl. Phys. B. 64, 623 (1997). [.PDF, 426Kb]

TRAPPED ION QUANTUM GATES THROUGH COLLECTIVE MOTION (THEORY)

• "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).

PHOTON-MEDIATED ENTANGLEMENT

• "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)

METHODS FOR SCALING THE ION TRAP QUANTUM COMPUTER

• "Architecture for a large-scale ion-trap quantum computer," D. Kielpinski, C. Monroe, and D. J. Wineland, Nature 417, 709 (2002).

• "Scaling Ion Trap Quantum Computation through Fast Quantum Gates," L.-M. Duan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 100502 (2004).

• "A scalable quantum computer with ions in an array of microtraps," J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller, Nature 404, 579 (2000).

MOTIONAL DECOHERENCE IN ION TRAPS

• "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]

EARLY EXPS 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]

• "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]

SPECTROSCOPY AND TRAPPED ION CLOCKS

• "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).

YTTERBIUM IONS

• "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).