June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
33h 24m
English
Ferdinand Schmidt‐Kaler and Ulrich Poschinger
QUANTUM, Johannes Gutenberg‐Universität Mainz, Institut für Physik, Staudingerweg 7, 55128 Mainz, Germany
The idea for dynamic trapping in alternating fields was conceived by Paul et al. in 1953 (1) and rewarded with the Nobel prize in 1989 (2). As static electric fields do not allow for trapping of charged particles, his invention was to employ an oscillating quadrupole field, which can result in bounded and stable trajectories. This realized a possibility to confine charged particles in deep potential at long trapping times, which has led ...