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Rydberg State Engineering and Motional Interference with Trapped Ions
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0009-0000-8105-8690
2026 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Trapped ions are one of the leading platforms for quantum technologies due to their excellent control over their internal electronic and external motional degrees of freedom. Many techniques and interesting effects rely on the coupling of the ions to their motion, which makes precise control of them paramount.

In this work, two novel techniques for motional state detection are presented. They allow the probing of certain motional states with a single measurement, without affecting the motion of the measured ion. These techniques are employed to generate and detect a highly entangled state between two motional modes in a novel manner. Furthermore, we harness the rich and intricate dynamics arising from the coupling of the ion's motion to its electronic degrees of freedom to study the emergence of interference. Theoretical predictions, describing interference both in the quantum and the classical regimes, are verified, offering a new and more intuitive description of interference, not just for trapped ions, but for a variety of systems that can be described in a similar way.

On the other hand, Rydberg excitation with trapped ions enables new interaction mechanisms and makes them extremely sensitive to their surroundings. This thesis presents advances towards Rydberg experiments with longer ion strings and concludes with a first demonstration of coherent population transfer between Rydberg states in trapped ions. The methods developed significantly increase the toolbox for trapped Rydberg ions, enabling more sophisticated experiments, especially when multiple different Rydberg states are involved, and allow more flexibility when using longer ion strings.

Abstract [sv]

Fångade joner är en av de främsta plattformarna för kvantteknik tack vare den utmärkta kontrollen över deras interna elektroniska och externa rörelsefrihetsgrader. Många tekniker och intressanta effekter bygger på kopplingen mellan jonerna och deras rörelse, vilket gör att en exakt styrning av dessa är av avgörande betydelse.

I detta arbete presenteras två nya tekniker för detektering av rörelsetillstånd. De möjliggör undersökning av vissa rörelsetillstånd med en enda mätning, utan att påverka det uppmätta jonets rörelse. Dessa tekniker används för att generera och detektera ett starkt sammanflätat tillstånd mellan två rörelsemoder på ett nytt sätt. Vidare utnyttjar vi den rika och komplexa dynamiken som uppstår genom kopplingen mellan jonens rörelse och dess elektroniska frihetsgrader för att studera uppkomsten av interferens. Teoretiska förutsägelser, som beskriver interferens både i kvant- och klassiska regimer, verifieras, vilket ger en ny och mer intuitiv beskrivning av interferens, inte bara för infångade joner, utan för en mängd olika system som kan beskrivas på liknande sätt.

Å andra sidan möjliggör Rydberg-excitation med infångade joner nya interaktionsmekanismer och gör dem extremt känsliga för sin omgivning. Denna avhandling presenterar framsteg mot Rydberg-experiment med längre jonsträngar och avslutas med en första demonstration av koherent populationöverföring mellan Rydberg-tillstånd i infångade joner. De utvecklade metoderna utökar verktygslådan för infångade Rydberg-joner avsevärt, vilket möjliggör mer sofistikerade experiment, särskilt när flera olika Rydberg-tillstånd är inblandade, och ger större flexibilitet vid användning av längre jonsträngar.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Physics, Stockholm University , 2026. , p. 107
Keywords [en]
Trapped Ions, Rydberg Ions, Interference
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Research subject
Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-255664ISBN: 978-91-8107-672-1 (print)ISBN: 978-91-8107-673-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-255664DiVA, id: diva2:2061361
Public defence
2026-09-03, FB53, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21 and online via Zoom, public link is available at the department website, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
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Available from: 2026-06-10 Created: 2026-05-20 Last updated: 2026-06-02Bibliographically approved
List of papers
1. Single-Shot Measurements of Phonon Number States Using the Autler-Townes Effect
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2023 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 131, no 22, article id 223603Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present a single-shot method to measure motional states in the number basis. The technique can be applied to systems with at least three nondegenerate energy levels which can be coupled to a linear quantum harmonic oscillator. The method relies on probing an Autler-Townes splitting that arises when a phonon-number changing transition is strongly coupled. We demonstrate the method using a single trapped ion and show that it may be used in a nondemolition fashion to prepare phonon number states. We also show how the Autler-Townes splitting can be used to measure phonon number distributions.

National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-226819 (URN)10.1103/physrevlett.131.223603 (DOI)001159474100005 ()38101344 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85178094449 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Knut and Alice Wallenberg FoundationSwedish Research Council, 2017-04638Swedish Research Council, 2021-05811Swedish Research Council, 2020-00381Carl Tryggers foundation Olle Engkvists stiftelseEU, Horizon 2020, 101046968
Available from: 2024-02-21 Created: 2024-02-21 Last updated: 2026-05-20Bibliographically approved
2. Motional-state analysis of a trapped ion by ultranarrowband composite pulses
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2024 (English)In: Physical Review A: covering atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information, ISSN 2469-9926, E-ISSN 2469-9934, Vol. 110, no 5, article id 053103Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this work, we present a method for measuring the motional state of a two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator. Our technique uses ultranarrowband composite pulses on the blue sideband transition to scan through the populations of the different motional states. Our approach does not assume any previous knowledge of the motional state distribution and is easily implemented. It is applicable both inside and outside of the Lamb-Dicke regime. For higher phonon numbers especially, the composite pulse sequence can be used as a filter for measuring phonon number ranges. We demonstrate this measurement technique using a single trapped ion and show good detection results with the numerically evaluated pulse sequence.

National Category
Other Physics Topics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-240857 (URN)10.1103/PhysRevA.110.053103 (DOI)001356724600009 ()2-s2.0-85211000328 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2025-03-17 Created: 2025-03-17 Last updated: 2026-05-20Bibliographically approved
3. Phononic bright and dark states: Investigating multi-mode light-matter interactions with a single trapped ion
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(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Physical Sciences
Research subject
Physics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-229227 (URN)10.48550/arXiv.2403.07154 (DOI)
Available from: 2024-05-20 Created: 2024-05-20 Last updated: 2026-05-20
4. Rydberg state engineering of trapped ions
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Abstract [en]

Microwave dressing of Rydberg ions creates tunable eigenstates with controllable polarizability and interaction strength, but coherent navigation between these states has remained elusive. Here, we report on the first demonstration of coherent population transfer between different Rydberg states of a trapped ion. We investigate both microwave-mediated Rabi oscillations between Rydberg S and P states and adiabatic transfer between microwave-dressed Rydberg states. Between Rydberg S and P states we achieve a population transfer efficiency of 91.5(5) % in a single microwave π-pulse. Microwave dressing hybridizes the S and P Rydberg states into new eigenstates with tunable polarizability, enabling both noise-resilient zero-polarizability states and maximally interacting states. We demonstrate adiabatic transfer between these zero-polarizability and maximally dressed states, enabling experiments that combine noise-resilient excitation with strong dipole-dipole interactions and Förster resonance control within a single measurement sequence.

Keywords
Trapped Ions, Rydberg Ions, quantum state engineering
National Category
Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Research subject
Physics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-255709 (URN)10.48550/arXiv.2605.30483 (DOI)
Available from: 2026-05-20 Created: 2026-05-20 Last updated: 2026-06-01

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