Simulation of open quantum systems using metastable states in Ytterbium ions

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Abstract

Trapped ions offer a pristine platform for quantum simulation of spin and spin-boson models providing high fidelity unitary manipulations. The addition of controlled non-unitary operations enhances the trapped-ion toolbox to simulate open quantum systems. Here we present the techniques used to perform controlled dissipation over both internal and external degrees of freedom of an ion chain. We perform sympathetic cooling of the shared motional modes in a multi-species ion chain via the narrow quadrupole 2S1/2 - 2D3/2 transition of a 172Yb+ ion, while independently controlling the hyperfine qubit of a 171Yb+ ion via off-resonant Raman processes. This setup simulates a minimal model of the electron transfer process between donor and acceptor states mediated by the coupling to a phonon bath. We study the electron transfer rate as a function of the acceptor-donor gap, the coupling between the spin to the phonon bath, and the cooling rate. We will also report our progress towards the coherent and incoherent shelving operations in Yb+ ions using a 411 nm laser and the ability to perform local spin dissipation using a 369 nm optical pumping beam array.

*This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER award No. PHY-2144910), the Army Research Office (Grant No. W911NF22C0012), the Army Research Laboratory (Grant No. W911QX21C0031), Welch Foundation Grant No. C-2154, and the Office of Naval Research (Grants No. N00014-23-12665 and the Young Investigator Program N00014-22-1-2282). We acknowledge that this material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under the Early Career Award No. DE-SC0023806.

Presenters

  • Midhuna Suganthi Duraisamy

    • Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A. ; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX , USA
    • Rice University; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute

Authors

  • Midhuna Suganthi Duraisamy

    • Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A. ; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX , USA
    • Rice University; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute

  • Visal So

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • Abhishek Menon

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • Mingjian Zhu

    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • April X Sheffield

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • George Tomaras

    • Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A. ; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA; Applied Physics Graduate Program, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • Roman Zhuravel

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  • Guido Pagano

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A, Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, U.S.A. ; Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, U.S.A.
    • Rice University
    • Physics and astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA; Smalley-Curl Institute, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
    • Rice University; Smalley-Curl Institute