Abstract
We report the creation of thermal, Fock, coherent, squeezed, and "Schrödinger cat" states of motion of a single 9Be+ atomic ion that is confined in a Paul-rf trap. The thermal state of motion is created by Doppler cooling on the 313 run 2S1/2 →2P3/2 transition.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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