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Bohman M, Grunhofer V, Smorra C, Wiesinger M, Will C, Borchert MJ, Devlin JA, Erlewein S, Fleck M, Gavranovic S, Harrington J, Latacz B, Mooser A, Popper D, Wursten E, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Ospelkaus C, Quint W, Walz J, Ulmer S. Sympathetic cooling of a trapped proton mediated by an LC circuit. Nature 2021; 596:514-518. [PMID: 34433946 PMCID: PMC8387233 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03784-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Efficient cooling of trapped charged particles is essential to many fundamental physics experiments1,2, to high-precision metrology3,4 and to quantum technology5,6. Until now, sympathetic cooling has required close-range Coulomb interactions7,8, but there has been a sustained desire to bring laser-cooling techniques to particles in macroscopically separated traps5,9,10, extending quantum control techniques to previously inaccessible particles such as highly charged ions, molecular ions and antimatter. Here we demonstrate sympathetic cooling of a single proton using laser-cooled Be+ ions in spatially separated Penning traps. The traps are connected by a superconducting LC circuit that enables energy exchange over a distance of 9 cm. We also demonstrate the cooling of a resonant mode of a macroscopic LC circuit with laser-cooled ions and sympathetic cooling of an individually trapped proton, reaching temperatures far below the environmental temperature. Notably, as this technique uses only image-current interactions, it can be easily applied to an experiment with antiprotons1, facilitating improved precision in matter-antimatter comparisons11 and dark matter searches12,13.
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Affiliation(s)
- M Bohman
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan.
| | - V Grunhofer
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
| | - C Smorra
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
| | - M Wiesinger
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
| | - C Will
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - M J Borchert
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
- Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
| | - J A Devlin
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - S Erlewein
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - M Fleck
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - S Gavranovic
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
| | - J Harrington
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
| | - B Latacz
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
| | - A Mooser
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - D Popper
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
| | - E Wursten
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
- CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - K Blaum
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
| | - Y Matsuda
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - C Ospelkaus
- Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
| | - W Quint
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
| | - J Walz
- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz, Germany
| | - S Ulmer
- RIKEN, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, Saitama, Japan
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