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Hyperfine-mediated electric quadrupole shifts in Al+ and In+ ion clocks

April 6, 2017
Author(s)
Kyle P. Beloy, David R. Leibrandt, Wayne M. Itano
We evaluate the electric quadrupole moments of the 1S0 and 3P0 clock states of 27Al+ and 115In+. To capture all dominant contributions, our analysis extends through third order of perturbation theory and includes hyperfine coupling of the electrons to both

Early observations of macroscopic quantum jumps in single atoms

March 25, 2015
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
The observation of intermittent fluorescence of a single atomic ion, a phenomenon better known as 'macroscopic quantum jumps,' was an important early scientific application of the three-dimensional rf quadrupole (Paul) trap. The prediction of the

Diamagnetic correction to the 9 Be + ground-state hyperfine constant

July 21, 2011
Author(s)
Nobuyasu Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger
We report an experimental determination of the diamagnetic correction to the 9Be + ground state hyperfine constant A. We measured A = −625 008 837.371(11) Hz at a magnetic field B of 4.4609 T. Comparison with previous results, obtained at lower values of B

Preserving quantum coherence using optimized open-loop control techniques

May 16, 2010
Author(s)
Michael J. Biercuk, Hermann Uys, Aaron Vandevender, Nobuyasu Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger
We describe experimental and theoretical studies of open-loop quantum control techniques known as dynamical decoupling (DD) for the suppression of decoherence-induced errors in quantum systems. Our experiments on trapped atomic ion qubits demonstrate that

High-Fidelity Quantum Control Using 9Be+ Ion Crystals in a Penning Trap

August 19, 2009
Author(s)
Michael J. Biercuk, Hermann Uys, Aaron Vandevender, Nobuyasu Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger
We provide an introduction to the use of ion crystals in a Penning trap for experiments in quantum information. Macroscopic Penning traps allow for the containment of a few to a few million atomic ions whose internal states may be used in quantum

Experimental Uhrig Dynamical Decoupling Using Trapped Ions

June 25, 2009
Author(s)
Michael J. Biercuk, Hermann Uys, Aaron Vandevender, Nobuyasu Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger
We present a detailed experimental study of the Uhrig Dynamical Decoupling (UDD) sequence in a variety of noise environments. Our qubit system consists of a crystalline array of 9Be + ions confined in a Penning trap. We use an electron-spin-flip transition

Frequency Measurements of Al+ and Hg+ Optical Standards

June 8, 2009
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist, Till P. Rosenband, David J. Wineland, David Hume, Chin-wen Chou, Steven R. Jefferts, Thomas P. Heavner, Tom Parker, Scott Diddams, Tara Fortier
Frequency standards based on narrow optical transitions in 27Al+ and 199Hg+ ions have been developed at NIST. Both standards have absolute reproducibilities of a few parts in 10 17. This is about an order of magnitude better than the fractional uncertainty

Optimized Dynamical Decoupling in a Model Quantum Memory

April 23, 2009
Author(s)
Michael J. Biercuk, Hermann Uys, Aaron Vandevender, N. Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland, John J. Bollinger
We demonstrate the efficacy of optimized dynamical decoupling pulse sequences in suppressing phase errors in a model quantum memory. Our experimental system consists of a crystalline array of trapped 9Be + ions in which we drive a qubit transition at $\sim

Prolonging qubit coherence: dynamic decoupling schemes studied in a Penning ion trap

February 2, 2009
Author(s)
Hermann Uys, Michael J. Biercuk, Aaron Vandevender, N. Shiga, Wayne M. Itano, John J. Bollinger
We present a study of dynamical decoupling schemes for the suppression of phase erros due to various noise environments using ions in a Penning ion trap as a model ensemble of qubits. By injecting frequency noise we demonstrate that in an Ohmic noise

Quantum Teleportation with Atomic Qubits

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
J Chiaverini, T Schaetz, Joseph W. Britton, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, Emanuel Knill, C. Langer, Dietrich Leibfried, R Ozeri, David J. Wineland

Alpha-Dot or Not: Comparison of Two Single Atom Optical Clocks

October 5, 2008
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, David Hume, Chin-Wen Chou, J.C. Koelemeij, A. Brusch, Sarah Bickman, Windell Oskay, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury, William C. Swann, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
Repeated measurements of the frequency ratio of Hg + and Al + single-atom optical clocks over the course of a year yield a constraint on the possible temporal variation of the fine-structure constant a. The time variation of the measured ratio corresponds

Recent atomic clock comparisions at NIST

October 1, 2008
Author(s)
Luca Lorini, Neil Ashby, Anders Brusch, Scott Diddams, Robert E. Drullinger, Eric Eason, Tara Fortier, Pat Hastings, Thomas P. Heavner, David Hume, Wayne M. Itano, Steven R. Jefferts, Nathan R. Newbury, Tom Parker, Till P. Rosenband, Jason Stalnaker, William C. Swann, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
The record of atomic clock frequency comparisons at NIST over the past half-decade provides one of the tightest constraints of any present-day, temporal variations of the fundamental constants. Notably, the 6-year record of increasingly precise

Ratio of the Al + and Hg + Optical Clock Frequencies to 17 Decimal Places

August 25, 2008
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano, Till P. Rosenband, David Hume, P.O. Schmidt, Chin-Wen Chou, A. Brusch, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Robert E. Drullinger, Sarah Bickman, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, William C. Swann, Nathan R. Newbury, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
Frequency standards (atomic clocks) based on narrow optical transitions in 27Al + and 199Hg + have been developed over the past several years at NIST. These two types of standards are both based on single ions confined in Paul traps, but differ in the

Frequency ratio of Al + and Hg + single-ion optical clocks; metrology at the 17th decimal place

March 6, 2008
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, David Hume, P. O. Schmidt, Chin-Wen Chou, Anders Brusch, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Robert E. Drullinger, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury, W Swann, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
We report the frequency ratio of the two most accurate and stable atomic clocks with a total fractional uncertainty of 5.2 X 10 -17 . This frequency ratio is the best-known physical constant that is not a simple integer. Repeated measurements during the

Fluorescence during Doppler cooling of a single trapped atom

November 26, 2007
Author(s)
Janus Wesenberg, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Brad R. Blakestad, Joseph W. Britton, Ryan Epstein, Jonathan Home, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, Emanuel H. Knill, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, Signe Seidelin, David J. Wineland
We investigate the temporal dynamics of Doppler cooling of a single trapped atom in the weak binding regime using a semi-classical model. We develop an analytical model for the simplest case of a single vibrational mode for a harmonic trap, and show how

Optical-to-microwave frequency comparison with fractional uncertainty of 10 -15

October 1, 2007
Author(s)
Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Tara M. Fortier, K Kim, Leo W. Hollberg, James C. Bergquist, Wayne M. Itano, Marie Delaney, Luca Lorini, Windell Oskay, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts, Filippo Levi, Thomas E. Parker, Jon H. Shirley
We report the technical aspects of the optical-to-microwave comparison for our recent measurements of the optical frequency of the mercury single-ion frequency standard in terms of the SI second as realized by the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock. Over the

Simplified motional heating rate measurements of trapped ions

September 19, 2007
Author(s)
Ryan Epstein, Signe Seidelin, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Janus Wesenberg, John J. Bollinger, Jason Amini, Brad R. Blakestad, Joseph W. Britton, Jonathan Home, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, Emanuel H. Knill, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, Nobuyasu Shiga, David J. Wineland
We measure motional heating rates of trapped atomic ions, a factor that influences multi-ion quantum logic gate fidelities. Two simplified techniques are developed for this purpose: one relies on Raman sideband detection implemented with a single laser

Optical frequency standards based on mercury and aluminum ions

September 12, 2007
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano, James C. Bergquist, Anders Brusch, Scott A. Diddams, Tara M. Fortier, Thomas P. Heavner, Leo W. Hollberg, David Hume, Steven R. Jefferts, Luca Lorini, Thomas E. Parker, Till P. Rosenband, Jason Stalnaker
Single-trapped-ion frequency standards based on a 282 nm transition in 199Hg+ and on a 267 nm transition in 27Al+ have been developed at NIST over the past several years. Their frequencies are measured relative to each other and to the NIST primary

Frequency Comparison of Al + and Hg + Optical Standards

June 24, 2007
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, David Hume, Anders Brusch, Luca Lorini, P. O. Schmidt, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Nathan R. Newbury, W Swann, Windell Oskay, Wayne M. Itano, David J. Wineland, James C. Bergquist
We compare the frequencies of two single ion frequency standards: 27Al + and 199Hg +. Systematic fractional frequency uncertainties of both standards are below 10 -16, and the statistical measurement uncertainty is below 5 x 10 -17. Recent ratio

Towards scaling up trapped ion quantum information processing

June 19, 2007
Author(s)
Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland, Brad R. Blakestad, John J. Bollinger, Joseph W. Britton, J Chiaverini, Ryan Epstein, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, Emanuel H. Knill, C. Langer, R Ozeri, Rainer Reichle, Signe Seidelin, Nobuyasu Shiga, Janus Wesenberg
Recent theoretical advances have identifed several computational algorithms that can be implemented utilizing quantum information processing (QIP), which gives an exponential speedup over the corresponding (known) algorithms on conventional computers. QIP

Observation of the 1 S 0 - 3 P 0 clock transition in 27 Al +

June 1, 2007
Author(s)
Till P. Rosenband, P. O. Schmidt, David Hume, Wayne M. Itano, Tara M. Fortier, Jason Stalnaker, Scott A. Diddams, Jeroen Koelemeij, James C. Bergquist, David J. Wineland
We report for the first time, laser spectroscopy of the 1S 0 – 3P 0 clock transition in 27Al +. A single aluminum ion and a single beryllium ion are simultaneously confined in a linear Paul trap, coupled by their mutual Coulomb repulsion. This coupling

Improved Limits on Variation of the Fine Structure Constant and Violation of Local Position Invariance

May 29, 2007
Author(s)
Tara M. Fortier, Neil Ashby, James C. Bergquist, Marie Delaney, Scott A. Diddams, Thomas P. Heavner, Leo W. Hollberg, Wayne M. Itano, Steven R. Jefferts, K Kim, Windell Oskay, Thomas E. Parker, Jon H. Shirley, Jason Stalnaker, Filippo Levi, Luca Lorini
We report tests of Local Position Invariance (LPI) and constancy of fundamental constants from measurements of the frequency ratio of the 282-nm 199Hg + optical clock transition to the ground-state hyperfine splitting in 133Cs. Analysis of the frequency

Errors in trapped-ion quantum gates due to spontaneous photon scattering

April 27, 2007
Author(s)
R Ozeri, Wayne M. Itano, Brad R. Blakestad, Joseph W. Britton, J Chiaverini, John D. Jost, C. Langer, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Rainer Reichle, Signe Seidelin, Janus Wesenberg, David J. Wineland
We analyze the error in trapped-ion, hyperfine qubit, quantum gates due to spontaneous scattering of photons from the gate laser beams. We investigate the error in single-ion-qubit rotations that are based on stimulated Raman transitions and in two-ion