# #Mon Aug 09 12:16:52 CEST 2010 Slide__DgztYKOfEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_footer=Source\: Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching Slide__DgztYKOfEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_subTitle=In the ring trap, the centre of the quadrupole field is a circle (a point in the Paul trap). This way it becomes possible to arrange ions along the ring which repel each other electrostatically, and thus 'keep distance' ("ion crystal"). Slide__DgztYKOfEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Scheme of a Ring Trap