| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Trap Operation Theory | 13 |
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| 1 Introduction | 14 |
| 1.1 Historical Background | 14 |
| 1.2 Principles of Particle Confinement | 21 |
| 2 The Paul Trap | 27 |
| 2.1 Theory of the Ideal Paul Trap | 27 |
| 2.2 Motional Spectrum in Paul Trap | 33 |
| 2.3 Adiabatic Approximation | 34 |
| 2.4 Real Paul Traps | 37 |
| 2.5 Instabilities in an Imperfect Paul Trap | 43 |
| 2.6 The Role of Collisions in a Paul Trap | 46 |
| 2.7 Quantum Dynamics in Paul Traps | 49 |
| 3 The Penning Trap | 60 |
| 3.1 Theory of the Ideal Penning Trap | 60 |
| 3.2 Motional Spectrum in Penning Trap | 65 |
| 3.3 Real Penning Traps | 66 |
| 3.4 Shift of the Eigenfrequencies | 68 |
| 3.5 Instabilities of the Ion Motion | 77 |
| 3.6 Tuning the Trap | 79 |
| 3.7 Quantum Dynamics in Ideal Penning Trap | 81 |
| 3.8 Quantum Dynamics in Real Penning Traps | 90 |
| 4 Other Traps | 95 |
| 4.1 Combined Traps | 95 |
| 4.2 Cylindrical Traps | 103 |
| 4.3 Nested Traps | 115 |
| 4.4 Multipolar Traps | 116 |
| 4.5 Linear Traps | 117 |
| 4.6 Ring Traps | 125 |
| 4.7 Planar Paul Traps | 126 |
| 4.8 Electrostatic Traps | 131 |
| 4.9 Kingdon Trap | 132 |
| Trap Techniques | 135 |
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| 5 Loading of Traps | 138 |
| 5.1 Ion Creation Inside Trap | 138 |
| 5.2 Ion Injection from Outside the Trap | 140 |
| 5.3 Positron Loading | 142 |
| 6 Trapped Charged Particle Detection | 146 |
| 6.1 Destructive Detection | 146 |
| 6.2 Nondestructive Detection | 148 |
| Nonclassical States of Trapped Ions | 155 |
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| 7 Quantum States of Motion | 157 |
| 7.1 Fock States | 157 |
| 7.2 Oscillator Coherent States | 158 |
| 7.3 Squeezed States | 163 |
| 8 Coherent States for Dynamical Groups | 165 |
| 8.1 Trap Symmetries | 165 |
| 8.2 Quasienergy States for Combined Traps | 166 |
| 9 State Engineering and Reconstruction | 173 |
| 9.1 Trapped Ion-Laser Interaction | 173 |
| 9.2 State Creation | 177 |
| 9.3 State Reconstruction | 187 |
| Cooling of Trapped Charged Particles | 193 |
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| 10 Trapped Ion Temperature | 196 |
| 10.1 Measurement of Ion Temperature | 197 |
| 11 Radiative Cooling | 200 |
| 12 Buffer Gas Cooling | 205 |
| 12.1 Paul Trap | 206 |
| 12.2 Penning Trap | 208 |
| 13 Resistive Cooling | 212 |
| 13.1 Negative Feedback | 216 |
| 13.2 Stochastic Cooling | 217 |
| 14 Laser Cooling | 221 |
| 14.1 Physical Principles | 221 |
| 14.2 Doppler Cooling: Semi-classical Theory | 223 |
| 14.3 Resolved Sideband Cooling | 226 |
| 14.4 EIT Cooling | 233 |
| 14.5 Sisyphus Cooling | 236 |
| 14.6 Stimulated Raman Cooling | 246 |
| 14.7 Sympathetic Cooling | 250 |
| 15 Adiabatic Cooling | 256 |
| Trapped Ions as Nonneutral Plasma | 258 |
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| 16 Plasma Properties | 260 |
| 16.1 Coulomb Correlation Parameter | 260 |
| 16.2 Weakly Coupled Plasmas | 260 |
| 17 Plasma Oscillations | 266 |
| 17.1 Rotating Wall Technique | 269 |
| 18 Plasma Crystallization | 272 |
| 18.1 Phase Transitions | 272 |
| 18.2 Chaos and Order | 275 |
| 18.3 Crystalline Structures | 277 |
| 19 Sympathetic Crystallization | 291 |
| A Mathieu Equations | 294 |
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| A.1 Parametric Oscillators | 294 |
| B Orbits of Trapped Ions | 297 |
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| C Nonlinear Oscillator | 303 |
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| C.1 Multipole Expansions | 303 |
| C.2 Normal Forms | 304 |
| C.3 Nonlinear Resonances | 306 |
| D Generating Functions for Quantum States | 309 |
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| D.1 Uncertainty Relations | 309 |
| D.2 Generating Functions | 310 |
| D.3 Displacement Operators | 313 |
| D.4 Time Dependent Oscillators | 314 |
| D.5 Coherent States for Symplectic Groups | 317 |
| E Trap Design and Electronics | 320 |
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| F Charged Microparticle Trapping | 324 |
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| References | 327 |
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| Index | 340 |