Recent experiments in trapped-ion quantum information processing at NIST
John Chiaverini, M. D. Barrett, R. B. Blakestad, J. Britton, Wayne M. Itano, John D. Jost, Emanuel H. Knill, C. Langer, Dietrich G. Leibfried, Roee Ozeri, Tobias Schaetz, David J. Wineland · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
Atomic ions confined in segmented trap arrays provide a system for quantum information processing. We report on the execution of two simple quantum algorithms, quantum error correction and the quantum Fourier transform, using this implementation. The demonstration of these algorithms in a scalable system is one step towards the execution of useful, large-scale quantum algorithms.