Title:  Surface Electrode Ion Traps: Algorithms and Cooling

Committee: 

Dr. Adibi, Advisor

Dr. Brown, Co-Advisor 

Dr. Klein, Chair

Dr. Chapman

Abstract: The object of the proposed research is to execute the exchange cooling protocol with two trapped ions. In trapped ion quantum information, maintaining low ion temperature of computational ions is key to performing high fidelity gates. However, sympathetic cooling, the current standard in the field, is both slow and experimentally complex. Exchange cooling promises to be faster and simpler. The basics of the idea are to utilize a bank of cold ions to cool the hotter computational ions. While the computational ions are used for a calculation, the coolant ions can be re-cooled for the next round of exchange cooling. Both groups, the coolant and computational ions, will be of the same atomic species. We seek to demonstrate exchange cooling between two Calcium ions at a timescale shorter than typical sympathetic cooling. The author will lean on a wealth of experience performing ion transport using surface electrode ions traps.