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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Trapped ion quantum networks

Christopher R. Monroe, L-M Duan, Dzmitry Matsukevich, Peter Maunz, David L. Moehring, Steven Olmschenk

Published May 4, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

We describe the use of a photonic coupling between remote trapped ions for applications in quantum communication and quantum computing.
DOI
10.1109/qels.2008.4553205

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