Ion trapping with atoms, molecules and exotic species

离子捕获技术使用电场和/或磁场在超低压真空室中捕获或悬浮带电粒子，如电离原子或分子。这种结合使我们几乎完全将我们的实验环境与周围的实验室隔离开来。这种隔离有很多好处，特别是它允许我们控制我们实验环境中的条件，例如为我们的原子和/或分子样品创造超冷(温度和/或1K)或非常热的条件。或者，人们可以利用这种极端的隔离来研究在更传统的环境中无法生存或更难研究的物种，如分子自由基、不稳定的原子同位素，甚至反物质。

The techniques of ion trapping use electric and/or magnetic fields to trap or suspend charged particles, such as ionized atoms or molecules, within ultralow pressure vacuum chambers. This combination allows us to all but fully isolate our experimental environment from the lab surrounding it. There are many benefits to such isolation, specifically it allows us to control the conditions within our experimental environment, such as creating ultracold (temperature << 1 K) or very hot conditions for our atomic and/or molecular samples. Alternatively, one can take advantage of this extreme isolation to study species that cannot survive or are more difficult to study in a more conventional environment, such as molecular radicals, unstable atomic isotopes, and even anti-matter.