On the Dipole-Induced Resonance Motion in a Paul Trap |
| C.M. Niculae Bucharest University, Department of Physics POB MG11, 76900 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania |
| Received: March 27, 1998; revised version July 28, 1998 |
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| The problem of resonant motion induced by the dipole component of the antisymmetric potential function in a radiofrequency Paul trap is investigated here. We show that, at low-level additional rf-voltage, the line-shape and the increasing rate of its amplitude, for the ion-excitation phenomenon, can be derived from the dipole approximation of the antisymmetric term in the potential energy. This approximation does not take into account the observed line-shift. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.94.719 PACS numbers: 32.80.Pj, 52.58.Qv, 52.65.Cc |