Toward a Loophole-Free Bell Inequality Violation with Barium Ions

dc.contributor.advisor	Blinov, Boris B
dc.contributor.author	Auchter, Carolyn A.
dc.date.accessioned	2017-02-14T22:42:08Z
dc.date.issued	2017-02-14
dc.date.submitted	2016-12
dc.description	Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-12
dc.description.abstract	The successful generation of ion-photon entanglement with a singly-trapped Barium ion and the photon it spontaneously emits is reported along with the current progress and technical details for extending this work to a loophole-free test of Bell's Inequality. The achieved ion-photon entanglement fidelity is .84(1) and a violation of the CHSH Bell Signal is shown to be greater than $8\sigma$. The utilization of a novel trap type and a pulsed laser for excitation is discussed for improvement of the rate of heralded ion-ion entanglement. A side project measuring the branching fraction of the 5D$_{5/2}$ level in $^{138}$Ba$^{+}$ is also discussed.
dc.embargo.lift	2022-01-19T22:42:08Z
dc.embargo.terms	Restrict to UW for 5 years -- then make Open Access
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.other	Auchter_washington_0250E_16747.pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1773/38198
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.rights	none
dc.subject
dc.subject.other	Quantum physics
dc.subject.other	Atomic physics
dc.subject.other	Physics
dc.subject.other	physics
dc.title	Toward a Loophole-Free Bell Inequality Violation with Barium Ions
dc.type	Thesis

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