Abstract
For an ion in a Paul trap, the effect of the micromotion on the heating by stray electric fields is studied analytically. A sequence of unitary transformations, set up from the solutions to the classical dynamics, leads to the exact quantum time propagator for each realization of the random classical field; subsequently, a statistical average is performed to obtain the fidelity of the motional ground state. In this nonperturbative approach, the role of the micromotion in the depopulation is understood as an effective change in the time dependence of the external field and an intrinsic modulation of the heating rate; it is shown that the consequent enhanced complexity of the dynamics can result in a reduction of the heating time.
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