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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(3): 036402    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac70b2
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Investigation of spatial structure and sympathetic cooling in the 9Be+40Ca+ bi-component Coulomb crystals

Min Li(李敏)1,2, Yong Zhang(张勇)1,2, Qian-Yu Zhang(张乾煜)1,2, Wen-Li Bai(白文丽)1,2, Sheng-Guo He(何胜国)1, Wen-Cui Peng(彭文翠)1,‡, and Xin Tong(童昕)1,†
1 State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China;
2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract  We study the spatial structure and sympathetic cooling of the bi-component Coulomb crystal (CC), which consists of approximate 450 9Be+ ions and 450 40Ca+ ions with a mass ratio of 0.225 in a segmented linear ion trap. By two-dimensional imaging of the bi-component CC, the 9Be+ ions are found to be surrounded by the 40Ca+ ions in the radial direction with a separation ratio of ~ 2.0, and the axial length of the 9Be+ ions occupied area is much larger than that of the 40Ca+ ions occupied area. Combined with the previous experimental results, the structure of the 9Be+-40Ca+ CC shows the larger the difference in the mass-charge ratio, the larger the separation between the two species. The comparison of the fluorescence spectra of the 9Be+ ions in the bi-component CC and the pure CC indicates that the 9Be+ ions can be sympathetically cooled and stably localized by the laser-cooled 40Ca+ ions during the recording of the fluorescence spectrum.
Keywords:  Coulomb crystals      sympathetic cooling      fluorescence spectrum  
Received:  03 March 2022      Revised:  08 May 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  18 May 2022
PACS:  64.70.kp (Ionic crystals)  
  37.10.Rs (Ion cooling)  
  33.50.Dq (Fluorescence and phosphorescence spectra)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91636216), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB21020200).
Corresponding Authors:  Xin Tong, Wen-Cui Peng     E-mail:  tongxin@wipm.ac.cn;wencuipeng@wipm.ac.cn

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Min Li(李敏), Yong Zhang(张勇), Qian-Yu Zhang(张乾煜), Wen-Li Bai(白文丽), Sheng-Guo He(何胜国), Wen-Cui Peng(彭文翠), and Xin Tong(童昕) Investigation of spatial structure and sympathetic cooling in the 9Be+40Ca+ bi-component Coulomb crystals 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 036402

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