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Ion-trap quantum computing in the presence of cooling
This paper discusses ways to implement two-qubit gate operations for quantum
computing with cold trapped ions within one step. The proposed scheme is widely
robust against parameter fluctuations and its simplicity might help to increase
the number of qubits in present experiments. Basic idea is to use the quantum
Zeno effect originating from continuous measurements on a common vibrational
mode to realise gate operations with very high fidelities. The gate success
rate can, in principle, be arbitrary high but operation times comparable to
other schemes can only be obtained by accepting success rates below 80%.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A, revised version, new
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Mollow triplet for cavity-mediated laser cooling
Here we analyse cavity-mediated laser cooling for an experimental setup with
an external trap which strongly confines the motion of a particle in the
direction of the cavity axis. It is shown that the stationary state phonon
number exhibits three sharp minima as a function of the atom-cavity detuning
due to a direct atom-phonon-photon coupling term in the system Hamiltonian.
These resonances have the same origin as the Mollow triplet in the resonance
fluorescence of a laser-driven atomic system. It is shown that a laser-Rabi
frequency-dependent atom-cavity detuning yields the lowest stationary state
phonon number for a wide range of experimental parameters.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, improved version, new titl
An efficient quantum filter for multiphoton states
We propose a scheme for implementing a multipartite quantum filter that uses
entangled photons as a resource. It is shown that the success probability for
the 2-photon parity filter can be as high as 1/2, which is the highest that has
so far been predicted without the help of universal two-qubit quantum gates.
Furthermore, the required number of ancilla photons is the least of all current
parity filter proposals. Remarkably, the quantum filter operates with
probability 1/2 even in the N-photon case, irregardless of the number of
photons in the input state.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in J.
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Comparing cavity and ordinary laser cooling within the Lamb-Dicke regime
Cavity-mediated cooling has the potential to become one of the most efficient
techniques to cool molecular species down to very low temperatures. In this
paper we analyse cavity cooling with single-laser driving for relatively large
cavity decay rates kappa and relatively large phonon frequencies nu. It is
shown that cavity cooling and ordinary laser cooling are essentially the same
within the validity range of the Lamb-Dicke approximation. This is done by
deriving a closed set of rate equations and calculating the corresponding
stationary state phonon number and cooling rate. For example, when nu is either
much larger or much smaller than kappa, the minimum stationary state phonon
number scales as kappa^2/16 nu^2 (strong confinement regime) and as kappa / 4
nu (weak confinement regime), respectively.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, final version accepted for publicatio
Composite quantum systems and environment-induced heating
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the development of
techniques which transfer trapped particles to very low temperatures. Here we
focus our attention on a heating mechanism which contributes to the finite
temperature limit in laser sideband cooling experiments with trapped ions. It
is emphasized that similar heating processes might be present in a variety of
composite quantum systems whose components couple individually to different
environments. For example, quantum optical heating effects might contribute
significantly to the very high temperatures which occur during the collapse
phase in sonoluminescence experiments. It might even be possible to design
composite quantum systems, like atom-cavity systems, such that they
continuously emit photons even in the absence of external driving.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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