ISBN 9783843927871

978-3-8439-2787-1, Reihe Physik

Kangwei Xia
Spectroscopy of Single Rare Earth Solid-State Qubits

152 Seiten, Dissertation Universität Stuttgart (2016), Hardcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

Rare earth ions doped in crystals provide promises not only by the high quality factor 4f—4f optical transitions but also by the well preserved and long-lived spin states, with the applications from solid-state laser spectroscopy to quantum information processing. However, for almost three decades, not being able to identify single rare earth elements in solids is the obstacle to achieve their full potential functionality.

We demonstrated the first direct optical detection of single rare earth ions (praseodymium) in solids in 2012. This research was covered in my Master Degree Thesis. This dissertation presents experimental progress in optically detecting other single rare earth species in crystals, understanding their fundamental spectroscopy properties and coherently controlling them, which is mainly focused on single trivalent cerium ions in different host materials. Following the optical detection of single cerium ions in yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG), the optical and spin properties of single Ce ions are investigated.

In this dissertation, we solve the key problem of optically detecting, spectrally studying and coherently manipulating single rare earth ions in solids.

The developed methods including optical detection, initialization, readout, coherent control and nanoscale production of single rare earth elements in crystals offer novel and powerful tools for understanding and exploring the fundamental spectroscopy properties of single rare earth elements in solids. It paves a way towards constructing scalable quantum network based on single rare earth solid-state qubits.