Realisation of homogeneous ion chain using surface traps

TL;DR

This paper discusses the development of a method to create uniformly spaced ion chains in surface traps, which could enable new experiments in quantum information and fundamental physics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to generate homogeneous ion chains in surface traps, addressing the non-uniform density issue in traditional linear ion traps.

Findings

Proposed a technique for uniform ion spacing in surface traps

Potential applications in quantum information processing

Facilitates studies of the Homogeneous Kibble-Zurek mechanism

Abstract

In a Radio-Frequency linear ion trap, 1D ion chains are routinely generated in laboratories around the world. They present a non-homogenous ion density along the chain. The possibility of generating uniformly distributed ion chain, where the distance between any adjacent ions is a constant, would open up new type of experiments in the context of Quantum Information and in the study of the Homogeneous Kibble-Zurek mechanism.