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Publications (18)

physics.atom-ph2024

State-dependent control of the motional modes of trapped ions using an integrated optical lattice

Alfredo Ricci Vasquez, Carmelo Mordini, Daniel Kienzler +1

In this work we study the interaction of trapped ions with a state-dependent, high-intensity optical lattice formed above an ion trap chip using integrated photonics. We use a sing…

physics.atom-ph2026

Direct observation of the optical Magnus effect with a trapped ion

Philip Leindecker, Louis P. H. Gallagher, Edgar Brucke +7

We directly observe and spatially map an optical analog of the Magnus effect, where intrinsic spin-orbit-like coupling of light generates a spin-dependent transverse displacement o…

quant-ph2024

Low-excitation transport and separation of high-mass-ratio mixed-species ion chains

Francesco Lancellotti, Stephan Welte, Matteo Simoni +6

We demonstrate low-excitation transport and separation of two-ion crystals consisting of one beryllium and one calcium ion, with a high mass ratio of . The full separation inv…

quant-ph2025

Scaling roadmap for modular trapped-ion QEC and lattice-surgery teleportation

César Benito, Alfredo Ricci Vasquez, Jonathan Home +4

We present a footprint study for the scaling of modular quantum error correction (QEC) protocols designed for triangular color codes, including a lattice-surgery-based logical tele…

quant-ph2020

Quantum Circuits for Isometries

Raban Iten, Roger Colbeck, Ivan Kukuljan +2

We consider the decomposition of arbitrary isometries into a sequence of single-qubit and Controlled-NOT (C-NOT) gates. In many experimental architectures, the C-NOT gate is relati…

quant-ph2021

Bias in error-corrected quantum sensing

Ivan Rojkov, David Layden, Paola Cappellaro +2

The sensitivity afforded by quantum sensors is limited by decoherence. Quantum error correction (QEC) can enhance sensitivity by suppressing decoherence, but it has a side-effect:…

quant-ph2024

Penning micro-trap for quantum computing

Shreyans Jain, Tobias Sägesser, Pavel Hrmo +8

Trapped ions in radio-frequency traps are among the leading approaches for realizing quantum computers, due to high-fidelity quantum gates and long coherence times. However, the us…

quant-ph2026

State-dependent Gaussian gate set using an optical tweezer for trapped ions

Philip Leindecker, Luka Milanovic, Tanja Behrle +5

We demonstrate a state-dependent Gaussian gate set on the motional modes of trapped Ca ions, realized with an optical tweezer. Dynamic control of the tweezer intensity a…

quant-ph2024

Modular variable laser cooling for efficient entropy extraction

Brennan de Neeve, Thanh-Long Nguyen, Alexander Ferk +5

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for laser cooling an oscillator based on sequences of spin-state-dependent displacements followed by spin repumping. For a therma…

quant-ph2026

Quantum theory for phonon lasing and non-classical state generation in mixed-species and single trapped ions

David Baur, Tanja Behrle, Ivan Rojkov +4

In this article we present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of phonon lasing with mixed-species trapped ions, as demonstrated in [T. Behrle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023)],…

quant-ph2024

Two-qubit operations for finite-energy Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill encodings

Ivan Rojkov, Paul Moser Röggla, Martin Wagener +4

We present techniques for performing two-qubit gates on Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) codes with finite energy, and find that operations designed for ideal infinite-energy codes…

quant-ph2026

Stabilization of cat-state manifolds using nonlinear reservoir engineering

Ivan Rojkov, Matteo Simoni, Elias Zapusek +2

We introduce a novel reservoir engineering approach for stabilizing multi-component Schrödinger's cat manifolds. The fundamental principle of the method lies in the destructive in…

physics.atom-ph2024

Two-photon cooling of calcium atoms

Wojciech Adamczyk, Silvan Koch, Claudia Politi +6

We demonstrate sub-Doppler cooling of calcium atoms using a two-photon transition from the ground state to the upper state via the intermediate s…

physics.atom-ph2026

Modulation theory formulation of atomic light-matter interaction

Matteo Simoni, Ivan Rojkov, Jonathan Home

We provide a re-formulation of the light-matter interaction of trapped-atom systems in terms of classical modulation theory. We introduce commuting ``mean'' quadrature operators to…

quant-ph2024

A 3-dimensional scanning trapped-ion probe

Tobias Sägesser, Shreyans Jain, Pavel Hrmo +6

Single-atom quantum sensors offer high spatial resolution and high sensitivity to electric and magnetic fields. Among them, trapped ions offer exceptional performance in sensing el…

quant-ph2018

Encoding a qubit in a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator

Christa Flühmann, Thanh Long Nguyen, Matteo Marinelli +3

The stable operation of quantum computers will rely on error-correction, in which single quantum bits of information are stored redundantly in the Hilbert space of a larger system.…

quant-ph2025

Non-linear cooling and control of a mechanical quantum harmonic oscillator

Matteo Simoni, Ivan Rojkov, Matteo Mazzanti +7

Non-linearities are a key feature allowing non-classical control of quantum harmonic oscillators. However, when non-linearities are strong, designing protocols for control is often…

quant-ph2020

Error correction of a logical grid state qubit by dissipative pumping

Brennan de Neeve, Thanh Long Nguyen, Tanja Behrle +1

Stabilization of encoded logical qubits using quantum error correction is key to the realization of reliable quantum computers. While qubit codes require many physical systems to b…