Explore: Trapped Ions

hold charged particles: the ions, which may be atoms, molecules, or large particles such as dust. Atomic and molecular ion traps have a number of applications

A trapped-ion quantum computer (TIQC) is one proposed approach to a large-scale quantum computer. Ions, or charged atomic particles, can be confined and

with up to 5 trapped ions by coupling to an open reservoir and Lanyon et al. demonstrated digital quantum simulation with up to 6 ions. Islam, et al

rods to confine ions radially and a static electrical potential on-end electrodes to confine the ions axially. The linear form of the trap can be used as

for Science Magazine entitled Scaling the Ion Trap Quantum Processor, pairing Monroe's research in trapped ions with Kim's focus on scalable quantum information

gate implementation for trapped ions, which requires that the system be restricted to the joint motional ground state of the ions. In an MS gate, entangled

to store ions. In 1989, Prestage, Dick, and Malecki described that ions could be trapped in the linear quadrupole trap system to enhance ion-molecule

extremely high resolving powers. In trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS), ions are held stationary (or trapped) in a flowing buffer gas by an axial

and e) of trapped ions. An additional auxiliary excited state a is used to implement the gate. Due to their mutual Coulomb repulsion the ions line up in

experimentalists have constructed small-scale quantum computers using trapped ions and superconductors. In 1998, a two-qubit quantum computer demonstrated