We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a microfabricated surface-electrode ion trap that supports controlled transport through the two-dimensional intersection of linear trapping zones arranged in a 90 • cross. The trap is fabricated with very large scalable integration techniques which are compatible with scaling to a large quantum information processor. The shape of the radio-frequency electrodes is optimized with a genetic algorithm to reduce axial pseudopotential barriers and minimize ion heating during transport. Seventy-eight independent dc control electrodes enable fine control of the trapping potentials. We demonstrate reliable ion transport between junction legs and determine the rate of ion loss due to transport. Doppler-cooled ions survive more than 10 5 round-trip transits between junction legs without loss and more than 65 consecutive round trips without laser cooling.

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In the simplest formulation, the FDTD algorithm requires that objects follow the rectangular grid. For curved surfaces, this is a severe limitation. In this paper, an approach to modify an existing rectangular FDTD code to model structures more naturally described in another coordinate system is demonstrated. The approach is a modification to the update coefficients and does not require significant changes to an existing piece of software.