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Entangled states of trapped atomic ions

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  • Rainer Blatt

    (Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25
    Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Otto-Hittmair-Platz 1)

  • David Wineland

    (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Abstract

To process information using quantum-mechanical principles, the states of individual particles need to be entangled and manipulated. One way to do this is to use trapped, laser-cooled atomic ions. Attaining a general-purpose quantum computer is, however, a distant goal, but recent experiments show that just a few entangled trapped ions can be used to improve the precision of measurements. If the entanglement in such systems can be scaled up to larger numbers of ions, simulations that are intractable on a classical computer might become possible.

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  • Rainer Blatt & David Wineland, 2008. "Entangled states of trapped atomic ions," Nature, Nature, vol. 453(7198), pages 1008-1015, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:453:y:2008:i:7198:d:10.1038_nature07125
    DOI: 10.1038/nature07125
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    1. Kafri, Yariv, 2015. "Fluctuations in driven systems," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 418(C), pages 154-169.

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