Conveners
Quantum Technologies
- Silke Auchter
The increasing complexity of trapped-ion experiments requires more powerful classical control systems, in particular to work with many channels in parallel. I will present work on extending our in-house developed control system which is used on multiple setups across several research groups [1-3]. The latest development cycle is focused on the increased requirements of multi-channel,...
At the Ion Traps and Lasers Laboratory of the University of Granada we have built a linear Paul trap apparatus as an assisted ion-trap system for a high-magnetic-field Penning trap experiment. The goal of this experiment is to generate and manipulate a qubit via the “clock” S1/2 -> D5/2 transition of 40Ca+ to read out motional frequencies of a 40Ca+ - 40Ca+ crystal in the ground state of...
We present progress on our experimental setup where we will use novel optical tweezers – derived from spatial light modulators – to manipulate the phonon spectrum of a two-dimensional ion crystal in a Paul trap [1]. This allows us to control the effective spin-spin interactions between the ions in order to realize and study various Hamiltonians of interest [2]. In particular, the pinning of a...
It is widely known that in a classical quadrupole Paul trap with endcap electrodes the localization of the particles with the narrow-defined charge to mass ratio realizes at fixed power supply parameters. If we consider a Coulomb crystal in a classical Paul trap, one can see the radial splitting of the crystal associated with the effective potential form at different voltages on the rod and...
