Experiments with highly-ionized atoms in unitary Penning traps

Published

August 14, 2015

Author(s)

Shannon Hoogerheide, Aung Naing, Joan M. Dreiling, Samuel Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise, Joseph Tan

Abstract

Highly-ionized atoms with special properties have been proposed for interesting applications, including potential candidates for a new generation of optical atomic-clocks at the 1 part in 1019 level of precision, quantum-information processing, and tests of fundamental theory. The proposed atomic systems are largely unexplored. Recent developments at NIST are described, including the isolation of highly ionized atoms at low energy in unitary Penning traps, and experiments to study electron capture and radiative decay.

Citation

Atoms

Volume

3

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms3030367

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Keywords

Atomic Physics, Ion trapping

Citation

Hoogerheide, S. , Naing, A. , Dreiling, J. , Brewer, S. , Guise, N. and Tan, J. (2015), Experiments with highly-ionized atoms in unitary Penning traps, Atoms, [online], https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms3030367, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=918532 (Accessed November 21, 2025)