A Single Trapped Ion as a Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillator
| dc.creator | Menicucci, Nicolas C. | |
| dc.creator | Milburn, G. J. | |
| dc.date | 2007-04-02 | |
| dc.date | 2007-07-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:50:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:50:43Z | |
| dc.description | We show how a single trapped ion may be used to test a variety of important physical models realized as time-dependent harmonic oscillators. The ion itself functions as its own motional detector through laser-induced electronic transitions. Alsing et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 220401 (2005)] proposed that an exponentially decaying trap frequency could be used to simulate (thermal) Gibbons-Hawking radiation in an expanding universe, but the Hamiltonian used was incorrect. We apply our general solution to this experimental proposal, correcting the result for a single ion and showing that while the actual spectrum is different from the Gibbons-Hawking case, it nevertheless shares an important experimental signature with this result. | |
| dc.description | 5 pages (two-column format), no figures, added introductory material, other minor content revisions | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0135 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0135 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys. Rev. A 76, 052105 (2007) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.052105 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/144696 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | A Single Trapped Ion as a Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillator | |
| dc.type | text |