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Phys. Rev. A 51, R30 - R33 (1995)

Dynamic Kingdon trap

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R. Blümel
Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800

Rapid Communication Received 15 September 1994

The dynamic Kingdon trap is a trap designed for the permanent storage of charged particles. While the Paul trap is based on the principle of strong focusing, the dynamic Kingdon trap uses strong defocusing to achieve trapping. It is shown that the dynamic Kingdon trap exhibits a sequence of period-doubling bifurcations. A numerical solution of the Laplace equation for a finite-length dynamic Kingdon trap with holding caps shows that this trap can be implemented in the laboratory.


©1995 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v51/pR30
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.51.R30
PACS: 32.80.Pj, 05.45.+b

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