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Entanglement of Atomic Qubits using an Optical Frequency Comb

David Hayes, Joint Quantum Institute/University of Maryland

(Session 2 : Friday from 10:15-10:45)

Abstract. Our group has demonstrated the use of an optical frequency comb to coherently control and entangle atomic qubits. A train of off-resonant ultrafast laser pulses is used to efficiently and coherently transfer population between electronic and vibrational states of trapped atomic ions and implement entangling quantum logic gates with high fidelity. This technique can be extended to the strong field limit with single ultrafast pulses, and this general approach can be applied to the quantum control of more complex systems, such as large collections of interacting atoms or molecules.