Employing Trapped Cold Ions to Verify the Quantum Jarzynski Equality
Employing Trapped Cold Ions to Verify the Quantum Jarzynski Equality
We propose a scheme to investigate the nonequilibrium work distribution of a quantum particle under well controlled transformations of the external potential, exploiting the versatility of a single ion in a segmented linear Paul trap. We describe in detail how the motional quantum state of a single ion can be …