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In ion trapping experiments, the Lamb Dicke regime (or Lamb Dicke limit) is a quantum regime in which the coupling (induced by an external light field) between the ion's internal qubit's states and its motional states is sufficiently small so that transitions that change the motional quantum number by more than one, are strongly suppressed. This condition is quantitively expressed by the inequality : where is the Lamb-Dicke parameter and is the motional quantum number of the ion's harmonic oscillator state. == Relation between Lamb Dicke parameter and Lamb Dicke regime == Considering the ion's motion along the direction of the static trapping potential of an ion trap (the axial motion in -direction), the trap potential can be validly approximated as quadratic around the equilibrium position and the ion's motion locally be considered as that of a quantum harmonic oscillator with quantum harmonic oscillator eigenstates . In this case the position operator is given by : where : is the spread of the zero-point wavefunction, is the frequency of the static harmonic trapping potential in -direction and are the ladder operators of the harmonic oscillator. The Lamb Dicke regime corresponds to the condition : where is the motional part of the ion's wavefunction and is the projection of the wavevector of the light field acting on the ion on the -direction. The Lamb-Dicke parameter actually is defined as : Upon absorption or emission of a photon with momentum the kinetic energy of the ion is changed by the amount of the recoil energy where the definition of the recoil frequency is : The square of the Lamb Dicke parameter then is given by : Hence the Lamb Dicke parameter quantifies the coupling strength between internal states and motional states of an ion. If the Lamb Dicke parameter is much smaller than one, the quantized energy spacing of the harmonic oscillator is larger than the recoil energy and transitions changing the motional state of the ion are negligible. The Lamb Dicke parameter being small is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the Lamb Dicke regime. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lamb Dicke regime」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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