High-Harmonicity Planar Penning Traps for Single-Electron Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17984v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:31:20 GMT
• Title: High-Harmonicity Planar Penning Traps for Single-Electron Qubits
• Abstract summary: We present a detailed account of the design choices required for planar Penning traps that feature a highly harmonic confining potential.<n>High harmonicity is indispensable for a number of applications, particularly for confinement of single electrons as qubits in quantum-information processing.
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• Abstract: We present a detailed account of the design choices required for planar Penning traps that feature a highly harmonic confining potential. High harmonicity is indispensable for a number of applications, particularly for confinement of single electrons as qubits in quantum-information processing. The present work extends previous studies [D. Goldmann and G. Gabrielse, Phys. Rev. A 81, 052335 (2010)] by a fully analytic treatment of finite electrode gaps and their relevance for small traps on the millimetre size scale and below, when relative gap sizes are non-negligible. We derive the overall trap potential with a particular focus on different models of finite-gap potentials and show how to find the optimum trap geometry and electrode voltages to minimize anharmonicities. The analytic calculations are compared with detailed finite-element simulations.

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