Adaptively controlled fast production of defect-free beryllium ion crystals using pulsed laser ablation

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Trapped atomic ions find wide applications ranging from precision measurement to quantum information science and quantum computing. Beryllium ions are widely used due to the light mass and convenient atomic structure of beryllium; however, conventional ion loading from thermal ovens exerts undesirable gas loads for a prolonged duration. Here, we demonstrate a method to rapidly produce pure linear chains of beryllium ions with pulsed laser ablation, serving as a starting point for large-scale quantum information processing. Our method is fast compared to thermal ovens, reduces the gas load to only 10−12 Torr (10−10 Pa) level, yields a short recovery time of a few seconds, and also eliminates the need for a deep ultraviolet laser for photoionization. We also study the loading dynamics, which show non-Poissonian statistics in the presence of sympathetic cooling. In addition, we apply feedback control to obtain defect-free ion chains with desirable lengths.

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Wu, Q., Filzinger, M., Shi, Y., Wang, Z., & Zhang, J. (2021). Adaptively controlled fast production of defect-free beryllium ion crystals using pulsed laser ablation. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92(6). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0044372

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