Abstract
Single ions in a linear string have been addressed with a tightly focused laser beam and an acousto-optic deflector. The excitation into a long-lived metastable level is detected with a quantum jump technique. Single-quantum bit operations for quantum information processing with trapped ions are shown to be feasible.
- Received 10 December 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.145
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