https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2008-00186-y
Electrons in a cryogenic planar Penning trap and experimental challenges for quantum processing
1
Quanten-Informationsverarbeitung, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany
2
Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
4
Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald, Institut für Physik, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
5
Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
Corresponding author: a pavel.bushev@uni-ulm.de
Received:
30
June
2008
Published online:
3
October
2008
We report on trapping of clouds of electrons in a cryogenic planar Penning trap at T ≤100 mK. We describe the experimental conditions to load, cool and detect electrons. Perspectives for the trapping of a single electron and for quantum information processing are given.
PACS: 37.10.-x – Atom, molecule, and ion cooling methods / 03.67.Lx – Quantum computation architectures and implementations
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
