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A cloud of laser cooled 40Ca+ in a linear ion trap

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A cloud of 40Ca+ is successfully trapped and cooled using the radiation of a red-detuned 397 nm laser beam and a resonant 866 nm laser beam in our prototype linear ion trap, which was designed and constructed for studying quantum information processing. We have characterized the size of the ion cloud, estimating the temperature to be in the order of milli-Kelvins.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

    Fei Zhou, YouYang Xu, Yi Xie, Bin Guo, JiaoMei Li, XueRen Huang & Mang Feng

  2. Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Fei Zhou, YouYang Xu, Yi Xie & Bin Guo

  3. School of Physics and Telecommunication Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    HuaLin Shu

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Zhou, F., Xu, Y., Xie, Y. et al. A cloud of laser cooled 40Ca+ in a linear ion trap. Chin. Sci. Bull. 55, 3094–3097 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-010-4072-9

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