Single trapped ion demonstrates quadsqueezing more than 100 times faster
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Updated · Nature.com · May 1
Single trapped ion demonstrates quadsqueezing more than 100 times faster
16 articles · Updated · Nature.com · May 1
In Nature Physics, O. Băzăvan and colleagues also generated squeezing and trisqueezing, reconstructing Wigner functions in a strontium-88 ion held in a radio-frequency Paul trap.
Their method combines two non-commuting spin-dependent linear interactions to create up to fourth-order nonlinear bosonic interactions without specialised hardware, producing non-Gaussian states relevant to continuous-variable quantum computing and simulation.
The team says it is the first trisqueezing in an atomic system and first fourth-order generalized squeezing on any platform, with the approach potentially extendable to other hybrid quantum platforms and multimode operations.
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