Entangling a Series of Trapped Ions by Moving Cavity Bus

Entangling multiple qubits is one of the central tasks of quantum information processing.We propose an approach to entangle a number of cold ions(individually trapped in a string of microtraps)by a moved cavity.The cavity is pushed to include the ions one by one with a uniform velocity and thus the information stored in former ions could be transferred to the latter ones by such a moving cavity bus.Since the positions of the trapped ions are precisely located,the strengths and durations of the ion-cavity interactions can be exactly controlled.As a consequence,by properly setting the relevant parameters,typical multi-ion entangled states,e.g.,W state for 10 ions,could be deterministically generated.The feasibility of the proposal is also discussed.