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Efficient sympathetic cooling in mixed barium and ytterbium ion chains

Quantum Information Processing volume 20, Article number: 162 (2021) Cite this article

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We study sympathetic cooling of the radial ion motion in a linear RF trap in mixed barium-ytterbium chains. Barium ions are Doppler-cooled, while ytterbium ions are cooled through their interaction with cold barium ions. We estimate the efficiency of sympathetic cooling by measuring the average occupation quantum numbers, and thus the temperature, of all radial normal modes of motion in the ion chain. The full set of orderings in a chain of two barium and two ytterbium ions have been probed, and we show that the average thermal occupation numbers for all chain configurations strongly depend on the trap aspect ratio. We demonstrate efficient sympathetic cooling of all radial normal modes for the trap aspect ratio of approximately 2.9.

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The authors wish to thank John Wright and Wen-Lin Tan for help with earlier parts of the experiments, and Megan Ivory, Jennifer Lilieholm, Alexander Pierce, Ramya Bhaskar and James Walker Steere for helpful discussions. This research was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. 1505326.Tomasz P. Sakrejda and Liudmila A. Zhukas contributed equally to this manuscript.

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    Tomasz P. Sakrejda, Liudmila A. Zhukas & Boris B. Blinov

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Sakrejda, T.P., Zhukas, L.A. & Blinov, B.B. Efficient sympathetic cooling in mixed barium and ytterbium ion chains. Quantum Inf Process 20, 162 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-021-03112-1

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Keywords

  • Trapped ions
  • Doppler cooling
  • Sympathetic cooling
  • Trap aspect ratio