Observation of Cold Collisions between Trapped Ions and Trapped Atoms

We study cold collisions between trapped ions and trapped atoms in the semiclassical (Langevin) regime. Using Yb(+) ions confined in a Paul trap and Yb atoms in a magneto-optical trap, we investigate charge-exchange collisions of several isotopes over three decades of collision energies down to 3  μ...

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Main Authors: Orucevic, Fedja, Cetina, Marko, Vuletic, Vladan, Grier, Andrew Todd
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51731
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538