Ion Storage Group

Ion Storage Group - March 23 2011

We conduct experiments on atomic ions that are confined in electromagnetic traps and laser-cooled, in some cases, to the ground
state of motion. Experiments employ RF (Paul) traps and Penning traps.
Precision spectroscopy experiments have applications to clocks and tests of fundamental interactions. Three main project areas are 

(1) RF-trap-based optical spectroscopy that requires ultra-stable lasers with application to accurate clocks

(2) Penning trap experiments, devoted to fundamental studies of liquid and crystalline plasmas and quantum-information processing and 

(3) RF-trap studies of quantum-state engineering and entanglement with application to quantum-information processing, spectroscopy, and tests of quantum mechanics.