https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2006-00152-9
Operation of a planar Penning trap
Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Institut fuer Physik, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Corresponding author: a galve@uni-mainz.de
Received:
5
March
2006
Revised:
11
May
2006
Published online:
30
June
2006
We demonstrate experimentally the confinement of electrons in a novel planar Penning trap. Measurement of the eigenfrequencies of the trapped electron cloud exhibits similar behaviour as in conventional 3-dimensional penning traps. The trap may be of future use in quantum computing schemes using single cold electrons.
PACS: 39.10.+j – Atomic and molecular beam sources and techniques / 03.67.Lx – Quantum computation / 52.27.Jt – Nonneutral plasmas
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2006
