Journal
QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/ab0513
Keywords
harmonic oscillator; coherent states; number states; trapped ion; motional frequency noise
Funding
- IARPA
- ARO
- ONR
- NIST quantum information program
- ARO QuaCGR fellowship [W911NF-14-1-0079]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Coherently displaced number states of a harmonically bound ion can be coupled to two internal states of the ion by a laser-induced motional sideband interaction. The internal states can subsequently be read out in a projective measurement via state-dependent fluorescence, with near-unit fidelity. This leads to a rich set of line shapes when recording the internal-state excitation probability after a sideband excitation, as a function of the frequency detuning of the displacement drive with respect to the ion's motional frequency. We precisely characterize the coherent displacement based on the resulting line shapes, which exhibit sharp features that are useful for oscillator frequency determination from the single quantum regime up to very large coherent states with average occupation numbers of several hundred. We also introduce a technique based on multiple coherent displacements and free precession for characterizing noise on the trapping potential in the frequency range of 500 Hz-400 kHz. Signals from the ion are directly used to find and eliminate sources of technical noise in this typically unaccessed part of the spectrum.
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