Heating of trapped ions from the quantum ground state

Details Heating of trapped ions from the quantum ground state Heating of trapped ions from the quantum ground state

2000-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0002040v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

With minor changes. 24 pages, including 7 figures. Submitted by Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.61.063418

We have investigated motional heating of laser-cooled 9Be+ ions held in radio-frequency (Paul) traps. We have measured heating rates in a variety of traps with different geometries, electrode materials, and characteristic sizes. The results show that heating is due to electric-field noise from the trap electrodes which exerts a stochastic fluctuating force on the ion. The scaling of the heating rate with trap size is much stronger than that expected from a spatially uniform noise source on the electrodes (such as Johnson noise from external circuits), indicating that a microscopic uncorrelated noise source on the electrodes (such as fluctuating patch-potential fields) is a more likely candidate for the source of heating.

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