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Ion traps for tomorrow's applications /

Ion trapping was first accomplished in Europe more than 50 years ago. Since then, research and development have increased steadily, and the last decades have seen a remarkable growth in applications, mainly due to the improvement of laser-based techniques for spectroscopy, cooling and the manipulati...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi." Varenna, Italy (Autor)
Otros Autores: Knoop, Martina (Editor ), Marzoli, I. (Irene) (Editor ), Morigi, G. (Giovanna) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2015.
Colección:Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" ; course 189 = Rendiconti della Scuola Internazionale di Fisica "Enrico Fermi" ; CLXXXIX Corso
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Course group shot
  • Trapping and cooling of atomic ions
  • Applications of ion traps
  • Introduction
  • Trapped-ion optical clocks
  • Quantum information processing
  • Radiofrequency traps
  • Classical equations of motion
  • Lowest-order classical motion
  • Typical realizations
  • Quantum-mechanical motion of charged particles in rf-traps
  • Trapped two-level atoms coupled to light fields
  • Internal states in two-level approximation
  • Coupling to light fields
  • Detection of ions and their internal states
  • Laser cooling of ions
  • Doppler cooling
  • Resolved sideband cooling
  • EIT cooling
  • Cooling of ion crystals
  • Ion crystal equilibrium and dynamics
  • Interaction of ion crystals with light
  • Ground-state cooling experiments with same-species ion crystals
  • Sympathetic ground-state-cooling experiments in mixed species crystals
  • Ion transport and separation
  • Motivation for multi-zone architecture
  • Ion transport
  • Ion separation
  • Adiabatic and diabatic transport and separation experiments
  • Microtraps
  • Motivations for microfabricated traps
  • 3D and 2D (surface electrode) micro traps
  • Microwave near-field techniques
  • Conclusions
  • Isotope-selective manipulation of ions in a Paul trap
  • Background
  • Loading ions into a trap
  • Mass-selective manipulation by electric fields
  • Parametric resonance
  • Nonlinear resonance
  • Laser manipulation
  • Laser cooling and heating of trapped ions
  • Direct cooling
  • Isotope-selective heating and cooling
  • Isotope-selective manipulation
  • Summary
  • Ion Coulomb crystals and their applications
  • Introduction
  • Conditions for Coulomb crystallization
  • Ion Coulomb crystals in laboratories
  • Structural properties (1D, 2D and 3D structures)
  • Dynamical properties
  • Applications
  • Non-linear dynamics.
  • Statistical physics and thermodynamics
  • Solid-state physics
  • Plasma physics
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Geoscience
  • Exotic stellar objects
  • Test of quantum mechanics
  • Cavity QED-related experiments
  • Quantum information processing
  • Quantum simulations
  • High-precision spectroscopy
  • Cold-molecular-ion research
  • Conclusion
  • The linear-zigzag structural transition in cold ion chains
  • The linear-zigzag structural instability of ion chains
  • Phase transitions and the Landau theory
  • The classical linear-zigzag instability
  • The quantum linear-zigzag instability
  • Creation and dynamics of topological defects in ion Coulomb crystals
  • Introduction
  • Creation of topological defects in ion Coulomb crystals
  • Kink densities and the Kibble-Zurek mechanism
  • The Peierls-Nabarro potential and kink stability
  • Influence of mass defects
  • Mass defects and electric fields
  • Conclusion
  • Ion rings in multipole traps
  • Introduction
  • Operation of multipole traps
  • Dimensions of the ion ring
  • Spectroscopic features of an ion ring
  • Structural phase transition
  • Modified multipole potentials
  • Conclusion
  • Frequency standards with trapped ions
  • Introduction
  • Principles of operation
  • Trapping, cooling and probing a single ion
  • Probing the reference transition
  • Probe laser stabilisation
  • Measuring and comparing optical frequencies
  • Systems studied and state-of-the-art performance
  • 199Hg+
  • 171Yb+
  • 88Sr+
  • 40Ca+
  • 115In+
  • 27Al+
  • Systematic frequency shifts
  • Zeeman shifts
  • Electric quadrupole shift
  • Frequency shifts related to the ion motion
  • Stark shifts from applied laser fields
  • Blackbody Stark shifts
  • Gravitational redshift
  • Conclusions and perspectives
  • Coherent manipulations in a microfabricated ion trap
  • Introduction
  • Agile laser experimental setup
  • Optical layout
  • RF system.
  • Test measurement setup
  • System characterization
  • Phase agility
  • Amplitude calibration and agility
  • Frequency agility
  • Microfabricated ion trap and ion transport
  • Conclusions
  • Quantum simulation of spin models with trapped ions
  • Introduction
  • Trapped ion effective spins: initialization, detection, and interaction
  • Quantum simulations of magnetism
  • Adiabatic evolution and preparation of the ground state
  • Ferromagnetic order
  • Antiferromagnetic order
  • Quantum dynamics and quenches
  • Outlook
  • Quantum networking with single ions
  • Motivation
  • Basic considerations and principles
  • Atom-photon entanglement
  • Atom-atom entanglement
  • Atom-photon interfaces
  • Controlled emission
  • Controlled absorption
  • Experiments
  • Atom-photon and atom-atom entanglement
  • Atom-photon entanglement
  • Atom-atom entanglement
  • Atom-photon interfaces
  • Controlled emission
  • Controlled absorption
  • Summary and outlook
  • High-resolution fluorescence and absorption imaging of single trapped ions
  • Introduction
  • Experimental apparatus
  • Millikelvin spatial thermometry of trapped ions using wavelength scale imaging
  • Observation of a large phase shift from a single atom using absorption imaging
  • Conclusion
  • Quantum information processing with trapped electrons
  • Introduction
  • Penning traps
  • Electron qubits
  • Single-qubit gates
  • Two-qubit gates
  • Qubit detection
  • Scalability
  • Planar Penning traps
  • Effective spin-spin coupling
  • Coherent wire coupling
  • Conclusions
  • Noise studies of driven geometric phase gates with trapped ions
  • Introduction
  • The setup
  • The stimulated Raman configuration
  • Spontaneous emission
  • Spin-motion coupling
  • Driven geometric phase gates with trapped ions
  • Gate performance in the presence of noise
  • Spontaneous emission
  • Laser intensity noise
  • Conclusions and outlook.
  • Monitoring single quantum systems by unsharp measurements
  • Introduction
  • Measurements in quantum mechanics
  • Generalised measurements
  • Unsharp measurements
  • Monitoring the quantum state in real time
  • Discussion
  • Ion-atom hybrid systems
  • Introduction
  • Trapping of ions, atoms and their combination
  • Ion-atom interactions: background
  • Elastic collisions
  • Inelastic collisions
  • Reactive collisions
  • Molecular ions in hybrid traps
  • Conclusions
  • Hybrid ion, atom and light trap
  • Introduction
  • Hybrid trap assembly
  • Vacuum system and electrode configuration
  • Atom trap(s)
  • Modified spherical Paul trap
  • Ion detection
  • Fabry-Perot cavity
  • Experiments with the hybrid trap
  • Ion-atom mixture experiments
  • Requirement for a cavity
  • Atom-cavity collective strong-coupling experiment
  • Other features and prospects with the hybrid trap
  • Conclusions
  • Sympathetic cooling of OH- ions using ultracold Rb atoms in a dark SPOT
  • Introduction
  • Sympathetic cooling of ions using ultracold atoms
  • Hybrid atom-ion trap
  • Conclusion and outlook
  • List of participants.