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Chinese Physics Letters

Demonstration of Cold40Ca+Ions Confined in a Microscopic Surface-Electrode Ion Trap

L. Chen, Wei Wan, Yi Xie, Haoyu Wu, Fei Zhou, Mang Feng

Published Jan 1, 2013• 7 citations
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Abstract

40 Ca + ions are successfully confined, under the cooling of a red-detuned laser, in a home-built microscopic surface-electrode (MSE) trap. With all electrodes deposited on a low-rf-loss substrate, our 500-μm-scale MSE trap is designed involving three potential wells and manufactured by the standard technique of the printed circuit board. Both linear and two-dimensional crystals of 40 Ca + are observed in the trap after preliminary micromotion compensation is carried out. The development of the MSE trap aims at large-scale trapped-ion quantum information processing.

DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/30/1/013702

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