Coherent Control of a Single Trapped Rydberg Ion.
Physical review letters 119:22 (2017) 220501
Authors:
Gerard Higgins, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, Quentin Bodart, Markus Hennrich
Abstract:
Trapped Rydberg ions are a promising novel approach to quantum computing and simulations. They are envisaged to combine the exquisite control of trapped ion qubits with the fast two-qubit Rydberg gates already demonstrated in neutral atom experiments. Coherent Rydberg excitation is a key requirement for these gates. Here, we carry out the first coherent Rydberg excitation of an ion and perform a single-qubit Rydberg gate, thus demonstrating basic elements of a trapped Rydberg ion quantum computer.