2017/03/28 by Tobias Schaetz · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Coulomb #Energetic neutral atom #Ion #Ion trapping #Optical tweezers #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Trapping #physics.atom-ph #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1361-6455/aa69b2
published as J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 102001 (2017) · 12 pages, 5 figures
openalex publication_date 2017/03/28 · openalex created_date 2017/04/07 · arxiv created 2021/05/03 · arxiv updated 2021/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract Isolating neutral and charged particles from the environment is essential in precision experiments. For decades, this has been achieved by trapping ions with radio-frequency (RF) fields and neutral particles with optical fields. Recently, the trapping of ions by interaction with light has been demonstrated. This might permit the advantages of optical trapping and ions to be combined. For example, we would benefit from superimposing optical traps to investigate ensembles of ions and atoms in the absence of any RF fields and from the versatile and scalable trapping geometries featured by optical lattices. In particular, ions provide individual addressability, and electronic and motional degrees of freedom that can be coherently controlled and detected via high-fidelity, state-dependent operations. Their long-range Coulomb interaction is significantly larger compared to those of neutral atoms and molecules. This enables ultra-cold interaction and the chemistry of trapped ions and atoms to be studied, as well as providing a novel platform for higher-dimensional experimental quantum simulations. The aim of this topical review is to present the current state of the art and to discuss the current challenges and prospects of the emerging field.