Ph.D. Thesis - Physics
Ph.D. Thesis - Physics
Ph.D. Thesis - Physics
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7.6.1 Regular array of stationary qubits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183<br />
7.6.2 Sufficient controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183<br />
7.6.3 Decoherence rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184<br />
7.7 Conclusions and future work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185<br />
III Toward ion-ion coupling over a wire 187<br />
8 Motivation for and theory of ion-ion coupling over a wire 189<br />
8.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190<br />
8.2 Theory of ion-ion coupling over a wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190<br />
8.2.1 Electrostatic solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />
8.2.2 Circuit model solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193<br />
8.2.3 Simulated coupling rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195<br />
8.3 Decoherence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195<br />
8.3.1 Dissipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196<br />
8.3.2 Electric field noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196<br />
8.4 Experimental questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />
8.4.1 DC and RF paths from the wire to ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198<br />
8.4.2 Potentials on the wire due to the rf trapping fields . . . . . . . . . . 199<br />
8.4.3 Heating rates vs. ion-wire distance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199<br />
8.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200<br />
9 Measuring the interaction of a single ion with a wire 201<br />
9.1 Experimental apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202<br />
9.1.1 The 40 Ca + ion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202<br />
9.1.2 The microfabricated trap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203<br />
9.1.3 The wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205<br />
9.2 Experimental methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206<br />
9.2.1 Compensation and frequency measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206<br />
9.2.2 Heating rate measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206<br />
9.3 Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207<br />
9.4 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211<br />
10 Conclusions and outlook 213<br />
A Matlab code for Ising model simulations 229<br />
A.1 Simulation with constant force in space and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229<br />
A.2 Simulation with a linear force gradient in space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232<br />
A.3 Simulation with constant force in space and linear variation in time . . . . . 235<br />
B Mathematica code for ion crystal structure 237<br />
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