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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Ultrafast coherent excitation of a trapped ion qubit for fast gates and photon frequency qubits
M J Madsen1, D L Moehring, P Maunz
1FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA. madsenm@wabash.edu
Physical Review Letters
|August 16, 2006
Abstract:
We demonstrate ultrafast coherent excitation of an atomic qubit stored in the hyperfine levels of a single trapped cadmium ion. Such ultrafast excitation is crucial for entangling networks of remotely located trapped ions through the interference of photon frequency qubits, and is also a key component for realizing ultrafast quantum gates between Coulomb-coupled ions.

