Trapped-Ion Phononic Network

Low-loss programmable

Deterministically prepares and detects multi-mode phonon states with reconstruction fidelities beyond photonic approaches.

Chen, Wentao · Lu, Yao · Zhang, Shuaining · Zhang, Kuan · Guanhao, Huang · Qiao, Mu · Xiaolu, Su · Zhang, Jialiang · Zhang, Jingning · Banchi, Leonardo · Kim, Myungshik · Kim, Kihwan

Nature Physics 2023

Advantages

Supports up to four collective vibrational modes

Any phononic state can be deterministically prepared and detected

High reconstruction fidelity for single-phonon states

High reconstruction fidelity for two-phonon states