Modeling ion trap thermal noise decoherence
We present a detailed analysis of ion heating caused by thermal fluctuation noise in ion traps. The results of the analysis are used to estimate thermal noise ion heating rates for a variety of trap electrode configurations and materials, including recent scalable multiplexed planar ion trap proposals based on silicon VLSI technology. We find that minimizing thermal noise ion heating places severe constraints on the design and materials used for ion traps.
ion traps decoherence quantum computing