Charged Particle Traps Physics and Techniques of Charged Particle Field Confinement /

• Main Authors: Major, Fouad G. (Author), Gheorghe, Viorica N. (Author), Werth, Günther (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 37
• Subjects: Physics.; Mechanics.; Nuclear physics.; Atoms.; Matter.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Nuclear engineering.; Nuclear Engineering.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.; Plasma Physics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

This book provides an introduction and guide to modern advances in charged particle (and antiparticle) confinement by electromagnetic fields. Confinement in different trap geometries, the influence of trap imperfections, classical and quantum mechanical description of the trapped particle motion, di...

Table of Contents:

• Trap Operation Theory
• The Paul Trap
• The Penning Trap
• Other Traps
• Trap Techniques
• Loading of Traps
• Trapped Charged Particle Detection
• Nonclassical States of Trapped Ions
• Quantum States of Motion
• Coherent States for Dynamical Groups
• State Engineering and Reconstruction
• Cooling of Trapped Charged Particles
• Trapped Ion Temperature
• Radiative Cooling
• Buffer Gas Cooling
• Resistive Cooling
• Laser Cooling
• Adiabatic Cooling
• Trapped Ions as Nonneutral Plasma
• Plasma Properties
• Plasma Oscillations
• Plasma Crystallization
• Sympathetic Crystallization.