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Trapped ions can provide a platform for high fidelity quantum computing, as well as for other areas such as optical clocks and quantum metrology. Recent progress made at the National Physical Laboratory on two ion entanglement in a microfabricated linear segmented trap will be presented. In addition, work on the dynamic control of axial potentials for shuttling, splitting and combining 88Sr+ ions will be shown. This will lay the foundations for single ion addressing and will also provide the framework for an isotopically pure loading scheme. In this scheme, ions are loaded individually in a loading zone then transported to a storage zone where they are combined with the existing string of ions. Ordinarily, loading longer strings of ions without loading the incorrect isotope is probabilistic, but this scheme will be able to achieve this with unit efficiency.
| Academic level | PhD student |
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