Abstract
The Cirac-Zoller model of quantum computation assumes that ions are confined in a linear ion trap. However, no experimental test of quantum computation or even of Raman cooling has yet been performed in a linear trap; instead the NIST group1 has used a miniature Paul trap in which a slight asymmetry or ellip-ticity is introduced to define an axis of crystallization. In this paper2 the case of arbitrary ellipticity is considered and two results for the crystal size and micromotion amplitude are derived.
© 1999 Optical Society of America
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