Communications in Theoretical Physics
Vibratile Coherence and Squeezing in Two Trapped Ions
Zeng Hao-Sheng, Kuang Le-Man, Xiwen Zhu, Kelin Gao
Abstract
It is shown that two trapped ions interacting with laser beams resonant to the first red side-band of center-of-mass mode, in Lamb Dicke regime and under rotating wave approximation, is described by a Jaynes-Cummings model. For the initial condition that the motional state of centor-of-mass mode is in vacuum state and the internal state is prepared in a coherent superposition of states, coherence and squeezing for the vibratile motion of center-of-mass mode are discussed, particularly, a weak coherent state and a weak squeezed vacuum state are obtained. Collapse and revival are also observed in this type of initial condition.