Adiabatic Cooling of Planar Motion in a Penning Trap Ion Crystal to Sub-Millikelvin Temperatures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12429v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:17:38 GMT
• Title: Adiabatic Cooling of Planar Motion in a Penning Trap Ion Crystal to Sub-Millikelvin Temperatures
• Authors: Wes Johnson, Bryce Bullock, Athreya Shankar, John Zaris, John J. Bollinger, Scott E. Parker,
• Abstract summary: Two-dimensional planar ion crystals in a Penning trap are a platform for quantum information science experiments.<n>Low-frequency planar modes of these crystals are not efficiently cooled by laser cooling.<n>We show that nonlinear mode coupling can enhance the cooling of the low-frequency planar modes.
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• Abstract: Two-dimensional planar ion crystals in a Penning trap are a platform for quantum information science experiments. However, the low-frequency planar modes of these crystals are not efficiently cooled by laser cooling, which can limit the utility of the drumhead modes for quantum information processing. Recently, it has been shown that nonlinear mode coupling can enhance the cooling of the low-frequency planar modes. Here, we demonstrate in numerical simulations that this coupling can be dynamically tuned by adiabatically changing the rotation frequency of the ion crystal during experiments. Furthermore, we show that this technique can, in addition, produce lower temperatures for the low-frequency planar modes via an adiabatic cooling process. This result allows cooling of the planar modes to sub-millikelvin temperatures, resulting in improved spectral resolution of the drumhead modes at experimentally relevant rotation frequencies, which is crucial for quantum information processing applications.

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