Trapping and Sympathetic Cooling of Boron Ions

2016/09/29 by René Rugango, Rugango, Rene, Mudit Sinhal +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.09521

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Abstract

We demonstrate the trapping and sympathetic cooling of B⁺ ions in a Coulomb crystal of laser-cooled Ca⁺, We non-destructively confirm the presence of the both B⁺ isotopes by resonant excitation of the secular motion. The B⁺ ions are loaded by ablation of boron and the secular excitation spectrum also reveals features consistent with ions of the form B_n⁺.

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