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Penning Traps

A Penning Trap is a type of electromagnetic confinement device that uses a combination of static magnetic and electric fields to confine charged particles in a small region of space for precision spectroscopy and quantum state manipulation.

568

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1.6K

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361

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Penning Trap

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568

Geonium theory: Physics of a single electron or ion in a Penning trap

Lowell S. Brown, G. Gabrielse · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1986 · 1.4K citations

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Quantum Zeno effect

Wayne M. Itano, D. J. Heinzen, J. J. Bollinger et al. · Physical Review A · 1990 · 1.2K citations

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Measurement of the fine-structure constant as a test of the Standard Model

Science · 2018 · 851 citations · Full text

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A new cooling technique for heavy ions in a Penning trap

G. Savard, St. Becker, G. Bollen et al. · Physics Letters A · 1991 · 627 citations · Full text

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Quantum projection noise: Population fluctuations in two-level systems

W. M. Itano, Jonas Bergquist, J. J. Bollinger et al. · Physical Review A · 1993 · 611 citations

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Authors

1.6K

  1. GG
    G. Gabrielse

    Harvard University, United States

    36 publications · 4.2K citations

    27

    h-index

  2. KB
    K. Blaum

    Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany

    47 publications · 2.2K citations

    26

    h-index

  3. WQ
    W. Quint

    GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Germany

    42 publications · 1.9K citations

    25

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  4. LS
    L. Schweikhard

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    45 publications · 2.4K citations

    25

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  5. JJ
    J. J. Bollinger

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

    26 publications · 2.7K citations

    21

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Institutions

361

  1. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

    Mainz, Germany

    42 h-index

    396 publications

    22.4K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

    Heidelberg, Germany

    32 h-index

    272 publications

    12K citations

  3. GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

    Darmstadt, Germany

    31 h-index

    195 publications

    9.4K citations

  4. National Institute of Standards and Technology

    Gaithersburg, United States

    28 h-index

    165 publications

    18.7K citations

  5. European Organization for Nuclear Research

    Geneva, Switzerland

    27 h-index

    124 publications

    6K citations

  6. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    22 h-index

    103 publications

    11.6K citations

  7. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    22 h-index

    85 publications

    4.3K citations

  8. University of Jyväskylä

    Jyväskylä, Finland

    20 h-index

    227 publications

    13.7K citations

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Venues

  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 95 publications · 8.3K citations

    55

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  2. Physical Review A

    PRA · 44 publications · 2.4K citations

    28

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  3. Physics of Plasmas

    40 publications · 909 citations

    21

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  4. Review of Scientific Instruments

    24 publications · 712 citations

    17

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