Dresden 2011 – scientific programme
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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 23: Poster 2: Intersectional Session
Q 23.34: Poster
Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 18:00–21:00, P1
Interfacing Ions with Nanofibres — •Benjamin Ames1, Michael Brownnutt1, Jan Petersen2, Arno Rauschenbeutel2, and Rainer Blatt1,3 — 1Institut für Experimentalphysik, Uni. Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria — 2Atominstitut, Technische Universität Wien, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Wien, Austria — 3Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Given the advances made in trapped-ion quantum information processing, ions make a natural choice of physical qubit in a register. By contrast, the ability to reliably transmit light over long distances makes photons a natural choice for flying qubits to connect the registers. It may be possible to couple these two systems by trapping ions in the evanescent field of a nanofibre.
Implementation of such an ion-fibre system is not without technical and physical challenges, particularly with regard to positional stability, and ion heating close to nanostructures. We describe an ion-trap/nanofibre system used to investigate such effects, and propose methods of observing coupling between ions and evanescent waves, even in the presence of such perturbations.