T Pohl et al 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 L183 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/37/9/L01
T Pohl, T Pattard and J M Rost
Show affiliationsRecent experiments with ultracold neutral plasmas show an intrinsic heating effect based on the development of spatial correlations. We investigate whether this effect can be reversed, so that imposing strong spatial correlations could in fact lead to cooling of the ions. We find that cooling is indeed possible. It requires, however, a very precise preparation of the initial state. Quantum mechanical zero-point motion sets a lower limit for ion cooling.
Issue 9 (14 May 2004)
Received 3 February 2004, in final form 19 March 2004
Published 20 April 2004
T Pohl et al 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 L183
R Metzler 2005 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38 1830
Neil V Budko and Rob F Remis 2004 Inverse Problems 20 S17
Benoît Saussol and Jun Wu 2003 Nonlinearity 16 1991
R R R Reis et al 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 353
Tamas Nemeth and Kenneth P Bube 2001 Inverse Problems 17 533
K. Gokhberg et al 2005 Europhys. Lett. 72 228
Hong Zhou et al 2005 Nonlinearity 18 2815
R Mendoza-Reséndez et al 2004 Nanotechnology 15 S254
C X Xu et al 2007 New J. Phys. 9 381