Abstract
We report the electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT) cooling of a large trapped ion chain to the quantum ground state. Unlike conventional EIT cooling, we engage a four-level tripod structure and achieve fast sub-Doppler cooling over all motional modes. We observe simultaneous ground-state cooling across the complete transverse mode spectrum of up to 40 ions, occupying a bandwidth of over 3 MHz. The cooling time is observed to be less than , independent of the number of ions. Such efficient cooling across the entire spectrum is essential for high-fidelity quantum operations using trapped ion crystals for quantum simulators or quantum computers.
- Received 11 April 2020
- Accepted 12 June 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.053001
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