Optical Mass Spectrometry of Cold and

M Fan, CA Holliman, X Shi, H Zhang, MW Straus, X Li… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We present an all-optical mass spectrometry technique to identify trapped ions. The new
method uses laser-cooled ions to determine the mass of a cotrapped dark ion with a sub …

High-fidelity manipulation of a qubit enabled by a manufactured nucleus

JE Christensen, D Hucul, WC Campbell… - npj Quantum …, 2020 - nature.com
The recently demonstrated trapping and laser cooling of 133Ba+ has opened the door to the
use of this nearly ideal atom for quantum information processing. However, before high …

An FPGA-based hardware platform for the control of spin-based quantum systems

X Qin, W Zhang, L Wang, Y Zhao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the development of a highly efficient, flexible hardware platform, which is
suitable for the control of spin-based quantum systems including quantum computation and …

Spectroscopy of a synthetic trapped ion qubit

D Hucul, JE Christensen, ER Hudson, WC Campbell - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Ba 133+ has been identified as an attractive ion for quantum information processing due to
the unique combination of its spin-1/2 nucleus and visible wavelength electronic transitions …

Application of a self-injection locked cyan laser for barium ion cooling and spectroscopy

AA Savchenkov, JE Christensen, D Hucul… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Compact, high power lasers with narrow linewidth are important tools for the manipulation of
quantum systems. We demonstrate a compact, self-injection locked, Fabry-Perot …

Weak dissipation for high-fidelity qubit-state preparation and measurement

A Ransford, C Roman, T Dellaert, P McMillin… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate a method of qubit state preparation and measurement (SPAM) based on a
weakly open quantum channel that achieves a higher fidelity than previous demonstrations …

Laser cooling of radium ions

M Fan, CA Holliman, AL Wang, AM Jayich - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The unstable radium nucleus is appealing for probing new physics due to its high mass,
octupole deformation, and energy level structure. Ion traps, with long hold times and low …

A control hardware based on a field programmable gate array for experiments in atomic physics

A Bertoldi, CH Feng, H Eneriz, M Carey… - Review of Scientific …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Experiments in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics require precise and accurate
control of digital, analog, and radio frequency (RF) signals. We present control hardware …

Phonon lasing from optical frequency comb illumination of trapped ions

M Ip, A Ransford, AM Jayich, X Long, C Roman… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate the use of a frequency-doubled optical frequency comb to load, cool, and
crystallize trapped atomic ions as an alternative to ultraviolet (UV) or even deep UV …

An integrated and scalable experimental system for nitrogen-vacancy ensemble magnetometry

S Song, X Li, X Zhu, B Chen, Z Yu, N Xu… - Review of Scientific …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are extremely promising solid-state spin
quantum sensors for magnetic field in recent years. The rapid development of NV-ensemble …