• DocumentCode
    521099
  • Title

    Using laser spectroscopy to study the non-maxwellian statistics of trapped ions

  • Author

    DeVoe, Ralph G.

  • Author_Institution
    Varian Phys., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Trapped ions cooled by a buffer gas can form an extended diffuse cloud dominated by power-law tails, rather than the Gaussian expected by Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, as described[1] in PRL 102, 063001 (2009).
  • Keywords
    Clouds; Cooling; Gas lasers; Gases; Heating; Helium; Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution; Spectroscopy; Statistics; Tail;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500708