Resolved-sideband laser cooling in a penning trap
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Author(s)
Goodwin, JF
Stutter, G
Thompson, RC
Segal, DM
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We report the laser cooling of a single ^{40}Ca^{+} ion in a Penning trap to the motional ground state in one dimension. Cooling is performed in the strong binding limit on the 729-nm electric quadrupole S_{1/2}↔D_{5/2} transition, broadened by a quench laser coupling the D_{5/2} and P_{3/2} levels. We find the final ground-state occupation to be 98(1)%. We measure the heating rate of the trap to be very low with n[over ¯][over ˙]≈0.3(2) s^{-1} for trap frequencies from 150-400 kHz, consistent with the large ion-electrode distance.
Date Issued
2016-04-06
Date Acceptance
2016-02-29
Citation
Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116 (14)
ISSN
1079-7114
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
116
Issue
14
Copyright Statement
This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
249958
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Subjects
physics.atom-ph
quant-ph
General Physics
02 Physical Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
143002