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Trapped-Ion State Detection through Coherent Motion
We demonstrate a general method for state detection of trapped ions that can be applied to a large class of atomic and molecular species. We couple a spectroscopy ion ($^{27}\mathrm{Al}^{+}$) to a control ion ($^{25}\mathrm{Mg}^{+}$) in the same trap and perform state detection through off-resonant laser excitation of the spectroscopy …