2022/11/16 by Shuo Zhang, Zhuo-Peng Huang, Zhang, Shuo +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.08896
openalex publication_date 2022/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Conventional theoretical studies on the ground-state laser cooling of a trapped ion have mostly focused on the weak sideband coupling (WSC) regime, where the cooling rate is inverse proportional to the linewidth of the excited state. In a recent work~[New J. Phys. 23, 023018 (2021)], we proposed a theoretical framework to study the ground state cooling of a trapped ion in the strong sideband coupling (SSC) regime, under the assumption of a vanishing carrier transition. Here we extend this analysis to more general situations with nonvanishing carrier transitions, where we show that by properly tuning the coupling lasers a cooling rate proportional to the linewidth can be achieved. Our theoretical predictions closely agree with the corresponding exact solutions in the SSC regime, which provide an important theoretical guidance for sideband cooling experiments.