Trapping Ion Coulomb Crystals in an Optical Lattice

2023/06/21 by Daniel Hoenig, Fabian Thielemann, Hoenig, Daniel +9 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2306.12518

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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