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We report the electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) cooling of a large trapped $^{171}$Yb$^+$ ion chain to the quantum ground state. Unlike conventional EIT cooling, we engage a four-level tripod structure and achieve fast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 L. Feng , W. L. Tan , A. De , A. Menon , A. Chu , G. Pagano , C. Monroe

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a parallel-electromagnetically-induced transparency (parallel-EIT) cooling technique for ion crystals in the Paul trap. It has less stringent requirements on the cooling resonance…

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) cooling is a well-established method for preparing trapped ion systems in their motional ground state. However, isolating a three-level system, as required for EIT cooling, is often challenging…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Katya Fouka , Athreya Shankar , Ting Rei Tan , Arghavan Safavi-Naini

We introduce and demonstrate double-bright electromagnetically induced transparency (D-EIT) cooling as a novel approach to EIT cooling. By involving an additional ground state, two bright states can be shifted individually into resonance…

We report the electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) cooling of $^{137}\mathrm{Ba}^{+}$ ions with a nuclear spin of $I=3/2$, which are a good candidate of qubits for future large-scale trapped ion quantum computing. EIT cooling of…

We present a technique for measuring ion temperature using cavity-based electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) applicable for cavity QED systems. This method enables efficient extraction of the ion's phonon occupation number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Abhijit Kundu , Vijay Bhatt , Arijit Sharma

Cooling of atomic motion is a crucial tool for many branches of atomic physics, ranging from fundamental physics explorations to quantum information and sensing. For trapped ions, electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) cooling has…

Penning traps, with their ability to control planar crystals of tens to hundreds of ions, are versatile quantum simulators. Thermal occupations of the motional drumhead modes, transverse to the plane of the ion crystal, degrade the quality…

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) can be used to cool an atom in a harmonic potential close to the ground state by addressing several vibrational modes simultaneously. Previous experimental efforts focus on trapped ions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Chang Hoong Chow , Boon Long Ng , Vindhiya Prakash , Christian Kurtsiefer

We developed a multi-mode ground state cooling technique based on electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT). By involving an additional ground and excited state, two individually adjustable bright states together with a dark state are…

A novel method of ground state laser cooling of trapped atoms utilizes the absorption profile of a three (or multi-) level system which is tailored by a quantum interference. With cooling rates comparable to conventional sideband cooling,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 F. Schmidt-Kaler , J. Eschner , G. Morigi , C. F. Roos , D. Leibfried , A. Mundt , R. Blatt

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) cooling has established itself as one of the most widely used cooling schemes for trapped ions during the past twenty years. Compared to its alternatives, EIT cooling possesses important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Shuo Zhang , Tian-Ci Tian , Zheng-Yang Wu , Zong-Sheng Zhang , Xin-Hai Wang , Wei Wu , Wan-Su Bao , Chu Guo

We theoretically and experimentally investigate double electromagnetically induced transparency (double-EIT) cooling of two-dimensional ion crystals confined in a Paul trap. The double-EIT ground-state cooling is observed for \Yb ions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Mu Qiao , Ye Wang , Zhengyang Cai , Botao Du , Pengfei Wang , Chunyang Luan , Wentao Chen , Heung-Ryoul Noh , Kihwan Kim

We use electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) laser cooling to cool motional modes of a linear ion chain. As a demonstration, we apply EIT cooling on $^{24}Mg^+$ ions to cool the axial modes of a $^9Be^+$ - $^{24}Mg^+$ ion pair and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-01-27 Y. Lin , J. P. Gaebler , T. R. Tan , R. Bowler , J. D. Jost , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

The work propose a scheme of deep laser cooling of $^{171}$Yb$^{+}$. The cooling is based on the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a polychromatic field with three frequency components are resonant to optical…

Laser cooling is fundamental to quantum computing and metrology using atomic systems. Precise control often requires cooling atoms' motional degrees of freedom to the quantum ground state, imposing operation time and architectural…

We propose a sub-Doppler laser cooling mechanism that takes advantage of the unique spectral features and extreme dispersion generated by the phenomenon of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). EIT is a destructive quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Peiru He , Phoebe M. Tengdin , Dana Z. Anderson , Ana Maria Rey , Murray Holland

We propose to cool a mechanical resonator close to its ground state via an electromagnetically-induced-transparency- (EIT-) like cooling mechanism in a double-cavity optomechanical system, where an additional cavity couples to the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yujie Guo , Kai Li , Wenjie Nie , Yong Li

We study, both experimentally and theoretically, electromagnetically induced transparency cooling of the drumhead modes of planar 2-dimensional arrays with up to $N\approx 190$ Be${}^+$ ions stored in a Penning trap. Substantial sub-Doppler…

Ground state laser cooling of a single trapped ion is achieved using a technique which tailors the absorption profile for the cooling laser by exploiting electromagnetically induced transparency in the Zeeman structure of a dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. F. Roos , D. Leibfried , A. Mundt , F. Schmidt-Kaler , J. Eschner , R. Blatt
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