Over the last quarter of this century, revolutionary advances have been made both in kind and in precision in the application of particle traps to the study of thephysics of charged particles, leading to intensi?ed interest in, and wide proliferation of, this topic. This book is intended as a timely addition to the literature, providing a systematic uni?ed treatment of the subject, from the point of view of the application of these devices to fundamental atomic and particle physics. Thetechniqueofusingelectromagnetic?eldstocon?neandisolateatomic particles in vacuo, rather than by material walls of a container, was initially conceivedbyW.Paulintheformofa3Dversionoftheoriginalrfquadrupole mass ?lter, for which he shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in physics [1], whereas H.G. Dehmelt who also shared the 1989 Nobel Prize [2] saw these devices (including the Penning trap) as a way of isolating electrons and ions, for the purposes of high resolution spectroscopy. These two broad areas of appli- tion have developed more or less independently, each attaining a remarkable degree of sophistication and generating widespread interest and experimental activity. Trap Operation Theory.- The Paul Trap.- The Penning Trap.- Other Traps.- Trap Techniques.- Loading of Traps.- Trapped Charged Particle Detection.- Nonclassical States of Trapped Ions.- Quantum States of Motion.- Coherent States for Dynamical Groups.- State Engineering and Reconstruction.- Cooling of Trapped Charged Particles.- Trapped Ion Temperature.- Radiative Cooling.- Buffer Gas Cooling.- Resistive Cooling.- Laser Cooling.- Adiabatic Cooling.- Trapped Ions as Nonneutral Plasma.- Plasma Properties.- Plasma Oscillations.- Plasma Crystallization.- Sympathetic Crystallization.
