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U. Tanaka

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arXiv2024

Development of a bipolar 50 V output digital-to-analog converter system for ion-shuttling operations

The quantum charge-coupled device (QCCD) is one of the notable architectures to achieve large-scale trapped-ion quantum computers. To realize QCCD architecture, ions must be transported quickly while minimizing motional excitation. High-voltage sources are necessary to achieve such high-quality ion transport through a high secular frequency. In this study, we report the development of a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital-to-analog converter (DAC) system with an output voltage range of +/-50 V and demonstrate its effectiveness in ion transport operations. The device provides 16-channel analog output, maximum update rate of 16 mega updates per second (MUPS), slew rate of 20 V/us, and bandwidth of > 200 kHz. By optimizing the voltage sets with quadratic programming, we experimentally confirmed that this DAC system can achieve more than twice the secular frequency attainable when its output range is restricted to +/-10 V, which is consistent with the fact that scaling all electrode voltages by a factor of 5 will scale the secular frequency by the square root of 5. Since the output range of many commercially available DACs is commonly limited to +/-10 V, this increase is effective for ion shuttling operations, such as transport, split and merge. The developed DAC system has potential to increase the speed of ion transport thereby reducing processing times in QCCD-based quantum computers.

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arXiv2021

Creation of double-well potentials in a surface-electrode trap towards a nanofriction model emulator

We demonstrate a microfabricated surface-electrode ion trap that is applicable as a nanofriction emulator and studies of many-body dynamics of interacting systems. The trap enables both single-well and double-well trapping potentials in the radial direction, where the distance between the two potential wells can be adjusted by the applied RF voltage. In the double-well configuration, parallel ion strings can be formed, which is a suitable system for the emulation of the Frenkel-Kontorova (FK) model. We derive the condition under which the trap functions as a FK model emulator. The trap is designed so that the Coulomb interaction between two ion strings becomes significant. We report on the microfabrication process for such downsized trap electrodes and experimental results of single-well and double-well operation with calcium ions. With the trap demonstrated in this work we can create atomically accessible, self-assembled Coulomb systems with a wide tuning range of the corrugation parameter in the FK model. This makes it a promising system for quantum simulations, but also for the study of nanofriction in one and higher dimensional systems.

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arXiv2002

Testing the stability of fundamental constants with the 199Hg+ single-ion optical clock

Over a two-year duration, we have compared the frequency of the 199Hg+ 5d106s 2S 1/2 (F=0)<-> 5d9 6s2 2D 5/2 (F=2) electric-quadrupole transition at 282 nm with the frequency of the ground-state hyperfine splitting in neutral 133Cs. These measurements show that any fractional time variation of the ratio nu(Cs)/nu(Hg) between the two frequencies is smaller than +/- 7 10^-15 / yr (1 sigma uncertainty). According to recent atomic structure calculations, this sets an upper limit to a possible fractional time variation of g(Cs) m_e / m_p alpha^6.0 at the same level.

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