Investigating a qubit candidate: Spectroscopy on the S1/2 to D5/2 transition of a trapped calcium ion in a linear Paul trap

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 234051-234059

  Nagerl H C ^a,b   Roos, Ch ^a   Leibfried, D ^a   Rohde, H ^a   Thalhammer, G ^a   Eschner, J ^a   Schmidt Kaler, F ^a   Blatt, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

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