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Playing Tricks to Ions

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Ted Hänsch’s career is defined by breaking new ground in experimental physics. Curiosity, vivid imagination, deep understanding, patience and tenacity are part of the winning formula, but perhaps an equally important ingredient may be Ted’s favorite past-time of exploring new tricks in his “Spiellabor” (play-lab), that often resurfaced as key ingredients in rather serious experiments later. On the occasion of Ted’s 75th birthday, a few past and potential future experiments with trapped ions are playfully surveyed here. Some of these tricks are already part of the trade, some are currently emerging and a few are mostly speculation today. Maybe some of the latter will be realized and even prove useful in the future.

This article is part of the topical collection “Enlightening the World with the Laser” - Honoring T. W. Hänsch guest edited by Tilman Esslinger, Nathalie Picqué, and Thomas Udem.

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Acknowledgements

Experiments, concepts and ideas are never created out of a vacuum. Most of what is described here and is not referenced as prior work was conceived and grown in the environment of the NIST Ion Storage Group, which therefore owns a great deal of the credit. However, all misconceptions and oversights are solely my own fault. I would like to acknowledge Jim Bergquist, John Bollinger, James Chou, David Hume, Wayne Itano, David Leibrandt, Andrew Wilson and Dave Wineland as well as all the post-docs, grad students and summer students and the administrative and technical staff of the Time and Frequency Division at NIST, a list of persons that is impossible to reproduce here, let alone to give them their proper share of the credit. Thanks for all your contributions, help and inspiration, I owe you big-time.

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  1. Institute for Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Dieter Meschede

  2. Max-Planck-Institute for Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching, Germany

    Thomas Udem

  3. Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Tilman Esslinger

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Leibfried, D. (2018). Playing Tricks to Ions. In: Meschede, D., Udem, T., Esslinger, T. (eds) Exploring the World with the Laser. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64346-5_8

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