Trapped ions interacting with laser fields: a perturbative analysis without rotating wave approximation

2003/01/24 by P. Aniello, Paolo Aniello, V. I. Manʹko +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0301138

submitted to Journal of Optics B (new extended version)

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Abstract

The Hamiltonian describing a single ion placed in a potential trap in interaction with a laser beam is studied by means of a suitable perturbative approach. It is shown, in particular, that the rotating wave approximation does not provide the correct expression, at the first perturbative order, of the evolution operator of the system.

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