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Highly excited eigenstates of the motion of an individual spatially confined atom may be prepared making use of a “trapping” mechanism based on the nonlinearity of the laser-mediated coupling of internal excitation and center-of-mass vibration of the atom. In contrast to micromaser-type trapping states, these states are insensitive to laser-phase fluctuations, and a long sequence of laser pulses may be applied to the atom with little degradation only of the atomic motion. Thus, vibrational number states of high quantum numbers are achievable.
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Wallentowitz, S., Vogel, W., Toschek, P.E. (2002). Preparation of Highly Excited Motional Energy Eigenstates with a Trapped Atom. In: Kumar, P., D’Ariano, G.M., Hirota, O. (eds) Quantum Communication, Computing, and Measurement 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47097-7_40
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