Determination of Multimode Motional Quantum States in a Trapped Ion System
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); OSTI
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States) ; IonQ, Inc., College Park, MD (United States)
Trapped atomic ions are a versatile platform for studying interactions between spins and bosons by coupling the internal states of the ions to their motion. Measurement of complex motional states with multiple modes is challenging, because all motional state populations can only be measured indirectly through the spin state of ions. Here we present a general method to determine the Fock state distributions and to reconstruct the density matrix of an arbitrary multimode motional state. Further, we experimentally verify the method using different entangled states of multiple radial modes in a five-ion chain. This method can be extended to any system with Jaynes-Cummings-type interactions.
- Research Organization:
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- National Science Foundation (NSF); US Army Research Office (ARO); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019294; SC0019449
- OSTI ID:
- 1980315
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 2280972
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 129; ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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