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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 90, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.033410
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- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
- Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), through the Army Research Office [W911NF-10-1-0284]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) [IKT 2020]
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [323714]
- BMBF via the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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We experimentally demonstrate fast separation of a two-ion crystal in a microstructured segmented Paul trap. By the use of spectroscopic calibration routines for the electrostatic trap potentials, we achieve the required precise control of the ion trajectories near the critical point, where the harmonic confinement by the external potential vanishes. The separation procedure can be controlled by three parameters: a static potential tilt, a voltage offset at the critical point, and the total duration of the process. We show how to optimize the control parameters by measurements of ion distances, trap frequencies, and the final motional excitation. We extend the standard measurement technique for motional excitation to allow for discriminating thermal and oscillatory states, and to cover a dynamic range covering more than 4 orders of magnitude in energy. It is shown that for fast separation times, oscillatory motion is excited, while a predominantly thermal state is obtained for long times. At a separation duration of 80 mu s, a minimum mean excitation of (n) over bar = 4.16(0.16) vibrational quanta per ion is achieved, which is consistent with the adiabatic limit given by our particular trap. The presented technique does not rely on specific trap geometry parameters and can therefore be adopted for different segmented traps.
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