Electronically excited cold ion crystals

Details Electronically excited cold ion crystals Electronically excited cold ion crystals

2011-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/1108.3591v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 023003 (2012)

Physics

Atomic Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.023003

The laser excitation of an ion crystal to high lying and long-lived electronic states is a genuine many-body process even if in fact only a single ion is excited. This is a direct manifestation of the strong coupling between internal and external dynamics and becomes most apparent in the vicinity of a structural phase transition. Here we show that utilizing highly excited states offers a new approach to the coherent manipulation of ion crystals. This permits the study of phenomena which rely on a strong coupling between electronic and vibrational dynamics and opens up a route towards the quantum simulation of molecular processes in a Paul trap.

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