Abstract
Trapped Rydberg ions are a novel approach to quantum information processing [1, 2]. Qubit rotations in the ion’s lower lying electronic states are combined with entanglement operations that take advantage of strong Rydberg interactions [3]. In our experimental setup we excite trapped strontium ions from the metastable 4D state to the Rydberg manifold using a two photon excitation process. Certain properties of the ion become more prominent for highly excited states. One example is the polarizabilty which reacts to the surrounding electric field of the trapping electrodes. While effects due to the polarizability are negligible for lower lying states, they become more prominent for highly-excited states. This change leads to an altered trapping potential for the high lying Rydberg states, as shown in Fig. 1 [4]. For previous experiments those shifts have always been compensated for to perform, for example, sub-microsecond entangling gates between trapped ions [5]. However, this trapping field displacement can also be used to coherently control the ions’ motion.
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