Resolved Sideband Cooling

Laser cooling of tightly bound atoms and ions beyond the Doppler limit, potentially all the way to the motional ground state.

Specifications & Metrics

type

Cooling

Core Principles & Analysis

• A laser cooling technique allowing cooling of tightly bound atoms and ions beyond the Doppler cooling limit.
• It can cool toward the motional ground state of the binding potential.
• It is the standard cooling method for trapped ions used in quantum logic spectroscopy and ion quantum gates.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Resolved sideband cooling