Entangled mechanical oscillators.

摘要

Quantum entanglement has been the subject of considerable research, in part due to its non-intuitive nature and ubiquitous presence in quantum information processing. For this reason, it is of interest to study entanglement in a variety of systems. The work discussed in this thesis focuses on the demonstration of deterministic entanglement in a system pervasive in nature: mechanical oscillators. Here, the mechanical oscillators are composed of the vibrations of two ion pairs in spatially separated locations. The techniques demonstrated in this experiment are likely to form core components of large-scale trapped-ion quantum information processing.