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View SchemaEngineering two-mode interactions in ion traps
| Authors | J. Steinbach, J. Twamley, P. L. Knight |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9708008 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9708008 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.56.4815 |
Abstract
We describe how two vibrational degrees of freedom of a single trapped ion can be coupled through the action of suitably-chosen laser excitation. We concentrate on a two-dimensional ion trap with dissimilar vibrational frequencies in the x- and y-directions of motion, and derive from first principles a variety of quantized two-mode couplings, concentrating on a linear coupling which takes excitations from one mode to another. We demonstrate how this can result in a state rotation, in which it is possible to transfer the motional state of the ion from say the x-direction to the y-direction without prior knowledge of that motional state.
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