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Endcap-Type Paul Trap for Precision Spectroscopy and Studies of Controlled Interactions
Anand Prakash, Akhil Ayyadevara, E. Krishnakumar +5
We present the design and fabrication of an endcap-type Paul trap. The trap is designed for studies with Ca and Yb. The design, fabrication process, and characterizatio…
Symmetry-controlled thermal activation in pyramidal Coulomb clusters: Testing Kramers-Langer theory
Akhil Ayyadevara, Anand Prakash, Shovan Dutta +2
Laser-cooled ions confined in electromagnetic traps provide a unique, tunable mesoscopic system where the interplay of the trapping potential, nonlinear Coulomb interactions, and l…
Nuclear spin quenching of the electric octupole transition in Yb
Jialiang Yu, Anand Prakash, Clara Zyskind +4
We report the coherent excitation of the highly forbidden clock transition in the odd isotope with nuclear spin ,…
Observing the dynamics of octupolar structural transitions in trapped-ion clusters
Akhil Ayyadevara, Anand Prakash, Shovan Dutta +2
Interacting many-particle systems can self-organize into a rich variety of crystalline structures. While symmetry provides a powerful framework for predicting whether transitions b…