2009/05/01 by David R. Leibrandt, Jaroslaw Labaziewicz, Vladan Vuletic +2 · 125 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Coupling (piping) #Doppler cooling #Ion #Laser cooling #Materials science #Microwave #Optics #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum mechanics #Raman spectroscopy #Resolved sideband cooling #Sideband #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.103.103001
published in Physical Review Letters 103(10), 103001 (American Physical Society) · 5 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2009/05/01 · openalex publication_date 2009/08/31 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We report a demonstration and quantitative characterization of one-dimensional cavity cooling of a single trapped (88)Sr(+) ion in the resolved-sideband regime. We measure the spectrum of cavity transitions, the rates of cavity heating and cooling, and the steady-state cooling limit. The cavity cooling dynamics and cooling limit of 22.5(3) motional quanta, limited by the moderate coupling between the ion and the cavity, are consistent with a simple model [Phys. Rev. A 64, 033405 (2001)] without any free parameters, validating the rate equation model for cavity cooling.