Winter school on Physics with Trapped Charged Particles

8-19 January 2018
Ecole de Physique des Houches
Europe/Zurich timezone

Electronic coupling between two ions stored in different traps

Not scheduled
20m
Ecole de Physique des Houches

Ecole de Physique des Houches

https://houches.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/
Poster Session 1

Speaker

Dr Jesus J. del Pozo (University of Granada)

Description

The coupling of ions stored in different traps through the charges they induce in a common electrode was proposed in Ref. [1], but it has not been
accomplished yet. The completion of such a system would be an outstanding technological breakthrough in quantum electronics and would pave the
way for the implementation of hybrids systems for quantum information [2]. A pioneer work using radio-frequency traps started at the UC Berkeley several
years ago (see e.g. [3]). With the same technical objective, but now using 7-T Penning traps we started to build the TRAPSENSOR facility at the University of Granada in 2012.
The first scientific aim envisaged is to perform high precision mass spectroscopy utilizing a single, laser cooled, calcium ion as a sensor [4,5]. This will overcome the tradeoffs among precision, number of ions used in the measurement and sensitivity to the target-ion's mass-to-charge ratio existing in current techniques.
To achieve this, the first outstanding goal is to measure the energy transfer between Doppler-cooled ions ($\langle n \rangle \sim 1000$ phonons) stored in different traps [6].
In this contribution we will present the full facility, report on the status of this singular experiment, and present the results obtained in two ion-trapping platforms. The ongoing
work with prospects to reach the single energy quanta exchange level ($\langle n \rangle = 0$) will be also outlined.

[1] D.J. Heinzen and D.J. Wineland, Phys. Rev. A 42, 2977 (1990).
[2] S. Kotler et al., Phys. Rev. A 95, 022327 (2017).
[3] N. Daniilidis et al., J. Phys. B 42, 144012 (2009).
[4] D.Rodriguez, Appl. Phys.B: Lasers O. 107, 1031 (2012).
[5] F. Dominguez et al., Sci.~Rep. 7, 8336 (2017).
[6] J.M. Cornejo et al., Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 410 , 22 (2016).

Primary authors

Dr Jesus J. del Pozo (University of Granada) Francisco Dominguez (University of Granada) Munuel J. Gutierrez (University of Granada) Iñigo Arrazola (University of the Basque Country) Javier Bañuelos (University of Granada) Prof. Lucas Lamata (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Dr Raul A. Rica (University of Granada) Prof. Michael Block (Helmholtz-Institut Mainz) Prof. Enrique Solano (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Prof. Daniel Rodriguez (University of Granada)

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