Dynamic Kingdon trap
Abstract
The dynamic Kingdon trap is a trap designed for the permanent storage of charged particles. While the Paul trap is based on the principle of strong focusing, the dynamic Kingdon trap uses strong defocusing to achieve trapping. It is shown that the dynamic Kingdon trap exhibits a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations. A numerical solution of the Laplace equation for a finite-length dynamic Kingdon trap with holding caps shows that this trap can be implemented in the laboratory.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- January 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.51.R30
- Bibcode:
- 1995PhRvA..51...30B
- Keywords:
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- 32.80.Pj;
- 05.45.+b;
- Optical cooling of atoms;
- trapping