Single-particle quantum tunnelling in ionic traps
Roberto M. Serra, Celso J. Villas-Bôas, M. H. Y. Moussa · Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics · 2003
We describe a proposal to probe the quantum tunnelling mechanism of an individual ion trapped in a double-well electromagnetic potential. The time evolution of the probability of fluorescence measurement of the electronic ground state is employed to characterize the single-particle tunnelling mechanism. The proposed scheme can be used to implement quantum information devices.