Charged Particle Traps

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Trap Operation Theory

   1. Introduction

      Pages 3-15

   2. The Paul Trap

      Pages 17-49

   3. The Penning Trap

      Pages 51-85

   4. Other Traps

      Pages 87-126

3. Trap Techniques

   1. Loading of Traps

      Pages 131-138

   2. Trapped Charged Particle Detection

      Pages 139-147

4. Nonclassical States of Trapped Ions

   1. Quantum States of Motion

      Pages 153-160

   2. Coherent States for Dynamical Groups

      Pages 161-168

   3. State Engineering and Reconstruction

      Pages 169-188

5. Cooling of Trapped Charged Particles

   1. Trapped Ion Temperature

      Pages 193-196

   2. Radiative Cooling

      Pages 197-201

   3. Buffer Gas Cooling

      Pages 203-209

   4. Resistive Cooling

      Pages 211-219

   5. Laser Cooling

      Pages 221-255

   6. Adiabatic Cooling

      Pages 257-258

6. Trapped Ions as Nonneutral Plasma

   1. Plasma Properties

      Pages 263-268

   2. Plasma Oscillations

      Pages 269-274

   3. Plasma Crystallization

      Pages 275-293

   4. Sympathetic Crystallization

      Pages 295-297

Over the last quarter of this century, revolutionary advances have been made both in kind and in precision in the application of particle traps to the study of thephysics of charged particles, leading to intensi?ed interest in, and wide proliferation of, this topic. This book is intended as a timely addition to the literature, providing a systematic uni?ed treatment of the subject, from the point of view of the application of these devices to fundamental atomic and particle physics. Thetechniqueofusingelectromagnetic?eldstocon?neandisolateatomic particles in vacuo, rather than by material walls of a container, was initially conceivedbyW.Paulintheformofa3Dversionoftheoriginalrfquadrupole mass ?lter, for which he shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics [1], whereas H.G. Dehmelt who also shared the 1989 Nobel Prize [2] saw these devices (including the Penning trap) as a way of isolating electrons and ions, for the purposes of high resolution spectroscopy. These two broad areas of appli- tion have developed more or less independently, each attaining a remarkable degree of sophistication and generating widespread interest and experimental activity.

• Confinement
• Paul and Penning traps
• Plasma
• Quantum computation with trapped ions
• Stored particle cooling
• Trapped charged particle spectroscopy
• particles

• Severna Park, USA

  Fouad G. Major

• Fachbereich Physik (18), Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Deutschland

  Viorica N. Gheorghe, Günther Werth

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