%0 Journal Article
%T Fast and Quasideterministic Single Ion Source from a Dipole-Blockaded Atomic Ensemble
%A C. Ates
%A I. Lesanovsky
%A C. S. Adams
%A K. J. Weatherill
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.213003
%X We present a fast and Quasideterministic protocol for the production of single ions and electrons from a cloud of laser cooled atoms. The approach is based on a two-step process where first a single Rydberg atom is photo-excited from a dipole-blockade configuration and subsequently ionized by an electric field pulse. We theoretically describe these excitation-ionization cycles via dynamical quantum maps and observe a rich behavior of the ionization dynamics as a function of laser Rabi frequency, pulse duration and particle number. Our results show that a fast sequential heralded production of single charged particles is achievable even from an unstructured and fluctuating atomic ensemble.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6502v3