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Near ground-state cooling of two-dimensional trapped-ion crystals with more than 100 ions

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Judith Elena Jordan, Kevin A. Gilmore, Athreya Shankar, Arghavan Safari-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, Murray Holland, John J. Bollinger

Abstract

We study, both experimentally and theoretically, electromagnetically induced transparency cooling of the axial drumhead modes of 2-dimensional arrays with up to N 190 Be+ ions stored in a Penning trap. Substantial sub-Doppler cooling is observed for all N drumhead modes. Quantitative measurements for the center-of-mass mode show near ground state cooling with motional quantum numbers of nbar = 0.3 +- 0.2 obtained within 200 μs. The measured cooling rate is faster than that predicted by single particle theory, in agreement with a quantum many-body calculation. For the lower frequency drumhead modes, quantitative temperature measurements are limited by apparent damping and frequency instabilities, but near ground state cooling of the full bandwidth is stronglysuggested.
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Physical Review Letters
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EIT cooling, Penning traps, sub-Doppler cooling, trapped ions
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, J. , Gilmore, K. , Shankar, A. , Safari-Naini, A. , Bohnet, J. , Holland, M. and Bollinger, J. (2019), Near ground-state cooling of two-dimensional trapped-ion crystals with more than 100 ions, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=926573 (Accessed October 10, 2025)

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Created February 7, 2019, Updated February 22, 2019
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