Ion Trap

Ion trap is a scientific technique to confine ions/charged particles in a small region of space through magnetic or/and electric fields. Many studies are carried out on the ion trap method, such as optical spectroscopic properties of the captured ion and mass spectrometric properties of fragment ions. The three most common and basic designs of the ion trap nowadays are the Penning trap (uses a quadrupole electric field and an axial magnetic field), linear trap (uses two-dimensional rf quadrupole fields), and Paul trap (uses three-dimensional quadrupole fields). Especially, the Paul trap is often utilized for quantum state manipulation, which results in the application of trapped ion quantum computer. In particular, long storage and coherence times in ion traps, which are essentially required for quantum computation and optical clock applications, can be achieved at cryogenic temperatures.

Customer References:

1. Jörg Schmiedmayer, Atominstitut/TU-Wien, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technolog, Austria: Applied Physics B, volume 116, 1017–1021 (2014).

2. Rainer Blatt, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria: New Journal of Physics 16, 113068 (2014).

3. Isaac Chuang, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA: Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 013103 (2009).

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