A planar rotor trapped and coupled to the vibrational modes of an ion crystal

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00590v1
• Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:48:15 GMT
• Title: A planar rotor trapped and coupled to the vibrational modes of an ion crystal
• Authors: Monika Leibscher, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Christiane P. Koch,
• Abstract summary: Planar rotors can be realized by confining molecular ions or charged nanoparticles together with atomic ions in a Paul trap.<n>We study the case of molecular ions or charged nanoparticles that have an electric dipole moment which couples to modes of the common vibrational motion in the trap.
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• Abstract: Planar rotors can be realized by confining molecular ions or charged nanoparticles together with atomic ions in a Paul trap. We study the case of molecular ions or charged nanoparticles that have an electric dipole moment which couples to modes of the common vibrational motion in the trap. We calculate the strength of the coupling with specific vibrational modes for rotor masses ranging from $10^2$ atomic units, as typical for diatomic molecules, to $10^{6}\,$ atomic units, corresponding to nanoclusters. Either, the coupling manifests as a resonant energy exchange between rotational states and one of ion crystal vibrational modes. Or, in the off-resonant case, the dipole-phonon coupling results in energy shifts. In both cases we discuss how the effect may be experimentally detected using sideband-resolved laser spectroscopy and measurements of decoherence.

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