Optical stimulated-Raman sideband spectroscopy of a single ^9Be^+ ion in a Penning trap

authored by
Juan M. Cornejo, Johannes Brombacher, Julia A. Coenders, Moritz Von Boehn, Teresa Meiners, Malte Niemann, Stefan Ulmer, Christian Ospelkaus
Abstract

We demonstrate optical sideband spectroscopy of a single Be+9 ion in a cryogenic 5 tesla Penning trap using two-photon stimulated-Raman transitions between the two Zeeman sublevels of the 1s22s ground state manifold. By applying two complementary coupling schemes, we accurately measure Raman resonances with and without contributions from motional sidebands. From the latter we obtain an axial sideband spectrum with an effective mode temperature of (3.1±0.4) mK. These results are a key step for quantum logic operations in Penning traps, applicable to high-precision matter-antimatter comparison tests in the baryonic sector of the standard model.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Quantum Optics
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)
QuantumFrontiers
External Organisation(s)
Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt PTB
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Type
Article
Journal
Physical Review Research
Volume
5
No. of pages
6
ISSN
2643-1564
Publication date
28.09.2023
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
General Physics and Astronomy
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.09362 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033226 (Access: Open)