%0 Journal Article
%T Non-Destructive Identification of Cold and Extremely Localized Single Molecular Ions
%A M. Drewsen
%A A. Mortensen
%A R. Martinussen
%A P. Staanum
%A J. L. S£¿rensen
%J Physics
%D 2004
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.243201
%X A simple and non-destructive method for identification of a single molecular ion sympathetically cooled by a single laser cooled atomic ion in a linear Paul trap is demonstrated. The technique is based on a precise determination of the molecular ion mass through a measurement of the eigenfrequency of a common motional mode of the two ions. The demonstrated mass resolution is sufficiently high that a particular molecular ion species can be distinguished from other equally charged atomic or molecular ions having the same total number of nucleons.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0406088v1