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Ions captured in the spotlight

Nature Photonics volume 11, pages 688–690 (2017)Cite this article

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Optical trapping of ions is relatively new and has been limited to a few milliseconds so far. Now researchers have trapped a single barium ion for several seconds, putting experiments with ultracold atoms and ions within reach.

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Fig. 1: Optical trapping of a single ion.

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