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Journal of Tianjin University Science and Technology

Study on the Thermal Stability of the Cold Trapped Ion Ground State

Zhao Hong

Published Jan 1, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the evolution of the ionic states with the temperature in the presence of laser ion interaction in a linear radio frequency trap The expectation value of ions' excited states with different laser detuning frequencies Δ is plotted against the temperature, and the upper limit of the temperature at which the logical gate operations could be carried out reliably is given Our result is quantitatively in agreement with that of the experiment

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