Controlling the potential landscape and normal modes of ion Coulomb crystals by a standing-wave optical potential

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.031401
Author	Search for: Lauprêtre, Thomas; Search for: Linnet, Rasmus B.; Search for: Leroux, Ian D.¹; Search for: Landa, Haggai; Search for: Dantan, Aurélien; Search for: Drewsen, Michael
Affiliation	National Research Council Canada. Metrology Research Centre
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Abstract	Light-induced control of ions within small Coulomb crystals is investigated. By intense intracavity optical standing-wave fields, subwavelength localization of individual ions is achieved for one-, two-, and three-dimensional crystals. Based on these findings, we illustrate numerically how the application of such optical potentials can be used to tailor the normal-mode spectra and patterns of multidimensional Coulomb crystals. The results represent, among others, important steps towards controlling the crystalline structure of Coulomb crystals, investigating heat-transfer processes at the quantum limit, and quantum simulations of many-body systems.
Publication date	2019-03-07
Publisher	American Physical Society
In	Physical Review A 99, no. 3, 031401.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
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