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Experimental demonstration of a technique to generate arbitrary quantum superposition states of a harmonically bound
A Ben-Kish1, B DeMarco, V Meyer
1NIST Boulder, Time and Frequency Division, Ion Storage Group, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|February 7, 2003
Abstract:
Using a single, harmonically trapped 9Be(+) ion, we experimentally demonstrate a technique for generation of arbitrary states of a two-level particle confined by a harmonic potential. Rather than engineering a single Hamiltonian that evolves the system to a desired final state, we implement a technique that applies a sequence of simple operations to synthesize the state.