Magic trapping of a Rydberg ion with a diminished static polarizability
Atomic Physics
2020-05-27 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
Highly excited Rydberg states are usually extremely polarizable and exceedingly sensitive to electric fields. Because of this Rydberg ions confined in electric fields have state-dependent trapping potentials. We engineer a Rydberg state that is insensitive to electric fields by coupling two Rydberg states with static polarizabilities of opposite sign, in this way we achieve state-independent magic trapping. We show that the magically-trapped ion can be coherently excited to the Rydberg state without the need for control of the ion's motion.
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@article{arxiv.2005.12422,
title = {Magic trapping of a Rydberg ion with a diminished static polarizability},
author = {Fabian Pokorny and Chi Zhang and Gerard Higgins and Markus Hennrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12422},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
4 pages and 4 figures in main body, 6 pages and 5 figures in total