Experimental demonstration of a robust, high-fidelity geometric two ion-qubit phase gate

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6930, 2003, Pages 412-415

  Leibfried, D ^a,b   DeMarco, B ^a   Meyer, V ^a   Lucas, D ^a,c   Barrett, M ^a   Britton, J ^a   Itano, W M ^a   Jelenkovic B ^a,d   Langer, C ^a   Rosenband, T ^a   Wineland, D J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; BERYLLIUM; ERROR ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL DIPOLE FORCE;

LOGIC GATES;

BERYLLIUM; ION;

COMPUTER; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DIPOLE; FORCE; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0037468839     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01492     Document Type: Article

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