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Phys. Rev. A 72, 062108 (2005) [6 pages]

Efficient scheme for multipartite entanglement and quantum information processing with trapped ions

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Wen-Xing Yang*
State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Center for Cold Atom Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, People’s Republic of China and Guaduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China

Zhi-Ming Zhan
School of Physics and Information Engineering, Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, People’s Republic of China and Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China

Jia-Hua Li
Department of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China

Received 14 August 2005; published 7 December 2005

In this paper, based on the recent experiment by Roos et al. Science 304 1478 (2004), a theoretical scheme is proposed to create the multipartite entanglement of many trapped ions and implement a two-qubit quantum phase gate between two ions in ion trap. In the scheme, the ion is illuminated by a single laser tuned to the first lower vibrational sideband. We also show that the scheme can be used to directly transfer information between two ions. The scheme has the advantage that it does not use the vibrational mode as the data bus and only requires a single resonant interaction. Thus the scheme is very simple and the quantum dynamics operation can be realized at a high speed. In view of the decoherence mechanism, the simplification for the entangled state preparation and experimental implementation of quantum logic operation may become crucial.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.062108
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.062108
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud, 42.50.Vk, 03.67.Lx

*Electronic address: wenxingyang@wipm.ac.cn