Abstract
We investigate the impact of a rotating-wall potential on perpendicular laser cooling in a Penning ion trap. By including energy exchange with the rotating wall, we extend previous Doppler laser-cooling theory and show that low perpendicular temperatures are more readily achieved with a rotating wall than without. Detailed numerical studies determine optimal operating parameters for producing low-temperature, stable two-dimensional crystals, important for quantum information processing experiments employing Penning traps.
1 More- Received 17 February 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.043421
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