  We realize fast transport of ions in a segmented micro-structured Paul trap.
The ion is shuttled over a distance of more than 10^4 times its groundstate
wavefunction size during only 5 motional cycles of the trap (280 micro meter in
3.6 micro seconds). Starting from a ground-state-cooled ion, we find an
optimized transport such that the energy increase is as low as 0.10 $\pm$ 0.01
motional quanta. In addition, we demonstrate that quantum information stored in
a spin-motion entangled state is preserved throughout the transport. Shuttling
operations are concatenated, as a proof-of-principle for the shuttling-based
architecture to scalable ion trap quantum computing.
