Nonclassical motional states of a trapped atom

Author

Wineland, D.J. ; Meekhof, D.M. ; Monroe, C. ; King, B.E. ; Itano, W.M. ; Leibfried, D.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

7-7 June 1996

Firstpage

142

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report the creation of thermal, Fock, coherent, squeezed, and Schrodinger cat states of motion of a single /sup 9/Be/sup +/ atomic ion that is confined in a Paul-rf trap. The thermal state of motion is created by Doppler cooling on the 313 nm transition. The other states are coherently prepared from an ion that has first been placed in the zero-point motional state through resolved sideband laser cooling by use of stimulated Raman transitions.

Keywords

Schrodinger equation; beryllium; laser beam effects; optical squeezing; radiation pressure; stimulated Raman scattering; thermo-optical effects; 313 nm; Be; Doppler cooling; Fock motion states; Paul-rf trap; Schrodinger cat states; coherent motion states; coherently prepared; nm transition; nonclassical motional states; optical squeezed states; resolved sideband laser cooling; single /sup 9/Be/sup +/ atomic ion; stimulated Raman transitions; thermal states; trapped atom; zero-point motional state; Atomic measurements; Cooling; Diffraction gratings; Electron mobility; Frequency; Laser beams; Laser transitions; Oscillators; Polarization; Pulse measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1996. QELS '96., Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-444-0

Type

conf

Filename

865683