Robust state preparation of a single trapped ion by adiabatic passage

@misc{wunderlich2005, abstract = {We report adiabatic passage experiments with a single trapped \$^40\$Ca\$^+\$ ion. By applying a frequency chirped laser pulse with a Gaussian amplitude envelope we reach a transfer efficiency of 0.990(10) on an optical transition from the electronic ground state S\$\_1/2\$ to the metastable state D\$\_5/2\$. This transfer method is shown to be insensitive to the accurate setting of laser parameters, and therefore is suitable as a robust tool for ion based quantum computing.}, author = {Wunderlich and Hannemann and Koerber, T. and Haeffner, H. and Roos and Haensel, W. and Blatt, R. and Schmidt-Kaler, F. }, citeulike-article-id = {751214}, eprint = {quant-ph/0508159}, keywords = {blatt, ion}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2006-07-11 12:17:04}, priority = {0}, title = {Robust state preparation of a single trapped ion by adiabatic passage}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508159}, year = {2005} }

TY - ELEC ID - wunderlich2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:751214 N2 - We report adiabatic passage experiments with a single trapped $^40$Ca$^+$ ion. By applying a frequency chirped laser pulse with a Gaussian amplitude envelope we reach a transfer efficiency of 0.990(10) on an optical transition from the electronic ground state S$_1/2$ to the metastable state D$_5/2$. This transfer method is shown to be insensitive to the accurate setting of laser parameters, and therefore is suitable as a robust tool for ion based quantum computing. TI - Robust state preparation of a single trapped ion by adiabatic passage KW - blatt KW - ion AU - Wunderlich AU - Hannemann AU - Koerber, T AU - Haeffner, H AU - Roos AU - Haensel, W AU - Blatt, R AU - Schmidt-Kaler, F PY - 2005/Aug/22/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508159 ER -