Stylus ion trap for enhanced access and sensing

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 551-554

  Maiwald, Robert ^a,b   Leibfried, Dietrich ^c   Britton, Joe ^c   Bergquist, James C ^c   Leuchs, Gerd ^a,b   Wineland, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; IONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PROBES; QUANTUM OPTICS;

ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIOFREQUENCY TRAP; RING ELECTRODES; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; TRAP GEOMETRIES;

TRAPPED IONS;

EID: 68749093803     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1311     Document Type: Letter

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