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Sympathetic Electromagnetically-Induced-Transparency Laser Cooling of Motional Modes in an Ion Chain

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Yiheng Lin, John P. Gaebler, Ting Rei Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, John D. Jost, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland

Abstract

We use electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) laser cooling to cool motional modes of a linear ion chain. As a demonstration, we apply EIT cooling on 24Mg+ ions to cool the axial modes of a 9Be+-24Mg+ ion pair and a 9Be+-24Mg+-24Mg+-9Be+ ion chain thereby sympathetically cooling the 9Be+ ions. Compared to previous implementations of conventional Raman sideband cooling, we achieve approximately an order of magnitude reduction in the duration required to cool the modes to near the ground state and significant reduction in required laser intensity.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
110
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

electromagnetically-induced transparency, ion trapping, quantum information processing, sympathetic laser cooling
Physics

Citation

Lin, Y. , Gaebler, J. , , T. , Bowler, R. , Jost, J. , Leibfried, D. and Wineland, D. (2013), Sympathetic Electromagnetically-Induced-Transparency Laser Cooling of Motional Modes in an Ion Chain, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=912751 (Accessed April 18, 2024)

Created April 12, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017