Laser Cooling of two trapped ions: Sideband cooling beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit

Details Laser Cooling of two trapped ions: Sideband cooling beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit Laser Cooling of two trapped ions: Sideband cooling beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit

1998-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9812014v1

Phys.Rev.A59:3797,1999

Physics

Quantum Physics

13 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.59.3797

We study laser cooling of two ions that are trapped in a harmonic potential and interact by Coulomb repulsion. Sideband cooling in the Lamb-Dicke regime is shown to work analogously to sideband cooling of a single ion. Outside the Lamb-Dicke regime, the incommensurable frequencies of the two vibrational modes result in a quasi-continuous energy spectrum that significantly alters the cooling dynamics. The cooling time decreases nonlinearly with the linewidth of the cooling transition, and the effect of trapping states which may slow down the cooling is considerably reduced. We show that cooling to the ground state is possible also outside the Lamb-Dicke regime. We develop the model and use Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for specific examples. We show that a rate equation treatment is a good approximation in all cases.

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