Sympathetic cooling and detection of a hot trapped ion by a cold one

We investigate the dynamics of an ion sympathetically cooled by another laser-cooled ion or small ion crystal. To this end, we develop simple models of the cooling dynamics in the limit of weak Coulomb interactions. Experimentally, we create a two-ion crystal of Ca ^+ and Al ^+ by photo-ionization o...

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Main Authors: M Guggemos, D Heinrich, O A Herrera-Sancho, R Blatt, C F Roos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/10/103001