Published April 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Sympathetic cooling of trapped Cd+ isotopes

  • 1. FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1120 (United States)

Description

We sympathetically cool a trapped 112Cd+ ion by directly Doppler cooling a 114Cd+ ion in the same trap. This is the first demonstration of optically addressing a single trapped ion being sympathetically cooled by a different species ion. Notably, the experiment uses a single laser source, and does not require strong focusing. This paves the way toward reducing decoherence in an ion trap quantum computer based on Cd+ isotopes

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 040304-040304.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society