| Title: | Neutral Atoms as Qubits |
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| Speaker: | Bill Phillips (NIST) |
| Date: | 10th June, 2003 |
Abstract:
Neutral atoms are attractive candidates for qubits. Optical lattices provide a natural storage register for such qubits. In experiments with loading atoms from a Bose-Einstein condensate into an optical lattice we have shown the possibility of high fidelity initialization of large numbers of qubits. We have also developed techniques for patterned loading of the atoms into a lattice, providing for spatial separations between qubits large enough to permit optical addressing of single qubits. Observation of the Mott insulator transition and of state-dependent transport of atoms in a lattice provide other tools needed to execute quantum information processing.
About the Speaker:
Bill Phillips, along with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. He is currently a visiting professor at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford.
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