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Experimental Methods for Trapping Ions Using Microfabricated Surface Ion Traps
Published on: August 17, 2017
Individual-Ion Addressing and Readout in a Penning Trap
Brian J McMahon1, Kenton R Brown1, Creston D Herold1
1<a href="https://ror.org/04qfrh333">Georgia Tech Research Institute</a>, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
Abstract:
We implement individual addressing and readout of ions in a rigidly rotating planar crystal in a compact, permanent magnet Penning trap. The crystal of ^{40}Ca^{+} is trapped and stabilized without defects via a rotating triangular potential. The trapped ion fluorescence is detected in the rotating frame for parallel readout. The qubit is encoded in the metastable D_{5/2} manifold enabling the use of high-power near-infrared laser systems for qubit operations. Addressed σ_{z} operations are realized with a focused ac Stark shifting laser beam. We demonstrate addressing of ions near the center of the crystal and at large radii. Simulations show that the current addressing operation fidelity is limited to ∼97% by the ion's thermal extent for the in-plane modes near the Doppler limit, but this could be improved to infidelities <10^{-3} with sub-Doppler cooling. The techniques demonstrated in this Letter complete the set of operations for quantum simulation with the platform.

