Trapping Ion Coulomb Crystals in an Optical Lattice
Atomic Physics
2023-06-23 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We report the optical trapping of multiple ions localized at individual lattice sites of a one-dimensional optical lattice. We observe a fivefold increase in robustness against axial DC-electric fields and an increase of the axial eigenfrequency by two orders of magnitude compared to an optical dipole trap without interference but similar intensity. Our findings motivate an alternative pathway to extend arrays of trapped ions in size and dimension, enabling quantum simulations with particles interacting at long range.
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@article{arxiv.2306.12518,
title = {Trapping Ion Coulomb Crystals in an Optical Lattice},
author = {Daniel Hoenig and Fabian Thielemann and Leon Karpa and Thomas Walker and Amir Mohammadi and Tobias Schaetz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.12518},
year = {2023}
}
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7 Pages, 5 Figures