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Ground state EIT cooling of Yb ion
The work propose a scheme of deep laser cooling of Yb. The
cooling is based on the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency
(EIT) in a polychromatic field with three frequency components are resonant to
optical transitions of the ^2S_{1/2} \to \, ^2P_{1/2} line. The deep cooling
down to the ground motional state in a trap allows for a significant
suppression of the second order Doppler shift in frequency standards. Moreover,
there is no need to use a magnetic field, which is required for Doppler cooling
of Yb in a field with two-frequency component. The cooling
without use of magnetic field is important for deep suppression of quadratic
Zeeman shifts of clock transitions from uncontrolled residual magnetic fields