Suppression of heating rates in cryogenic surface-electrode ion traps.
Dense arrays of trapped ions provide one way of scaling up ion trap quantum information processing. However, miniaturization of ion traps is currently limited by sharply increasing motional state decoherence at sub-100 mum ion-electrode distances. We characterize heating rates in cryogenically cooled surface-electrode traps, with characteristic sizes in the 75 to 150 mum range. Upon cooling to 6 K, the measured rates are suppressed by 7 orders of magnitude, 2 orders of magnitude below previously published data of similarly sized traps operated at room temperature. The observed noise depends strongly on the fabrication process, which suggests further improvements are possible.
Labaziewicz
Jaroslaw
J
Center for Ultracold Atoms, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. labaziew@mit.edu
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Yufei
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Antohi
Paul
P
Leibrandt
David
D
Brown
Kenneth R
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Chuang
Isaac L
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