Sympathetic Cooling of Trapped Cd+ Isotopes
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We sympathetically cool a trapped 112Cd+ ion by directly Doppler-cooling a 114Cd+ ion in the same trap. This is the first demonstration of optically addressing a single trapped ion being sympathetically cooled by a different species ion. Notably, the experiment uses a single laser source, and does not require strong focusing. This paves the way toward reducing decoherence in an ion trap quantum computer based on Cd+ isotopes.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0112084,
title = {Sympathetic Cooling of Trapped Cd+ Isotopes},
author = {B. B. Blinov and L. Deslauriers and P. Lee and M. J. Madsen and R. Miller and C. Monroe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0112084},
year = {2009}
}
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