Quantum Reservoir Engineering with Laser Cooled Trapped Ions
J. F. Poyatos, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller · Physical Review Letters · 1996
We show how to design different couplings between a single ion trapped in a harmonic potential and an environment. The coupling is due to the absorption of a laser photon and subsequent spontaneous emission. The variation of the laser frequencies and intensities allows one to ``engineer'' the coupling and select the master equation describing the motion of the ion.