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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Transport of Trapped-ion Qubits in a Scalable Architecture

R. B. Blakestad, C. Ospelkaus, Aaron P. VanDevender, Janus H. Wesenberg, Michael J. Biercuk, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

Trapped-ion qubits can be transported through a two-dimensional trap array, while maintaining the ions near the motional ground-state. This helps demonstrate the viability of large-scale quantum processor architectures using trapped-ions.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2012.jw3i.6

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