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Figure 5-8: (a) A cloud of ions (circled) intersects the detection lasers traversing the trapping<br />

region. The bright spots beneath the ions are laser scatter. (b) An ion crystal (circled) with<br />

a lifetime of O(15minutes) is observed in the trap. The fact that it’s a crystal rather than a<br />

cloud can be inferred from the fluorescence per pixel, which is consistent with a crystal but<br />

not a cloud, in addition to the fact that the signal vanishes instantly, rather than gradually,<br />

when ions are lost from the trap. Resolution in the imaging optics is insufficient to count<br />

the number of ions.<br />

Figure 5-9: Secular frequencies as a function of rf voltage for one site of the lattice trap.<br />

Circles represent data points, dotted lines represent linear fits to the data, and the solid<br />

lines are the predicted values from the model. The upper (red) data are values of ωˆz/2π,<br />

and the lower (blue) are values of ωˆr/2π.<br />

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