Control and Manipulation of Cold Atoms in Optical Tweezers
Quantum Physics
2015-05-30 v2 Atomic Physics
Optics
Abstract
Neutral atoms trapped by laser light are amongst the most promising candidates for storing and processing information in a quantum computer or simulator. The application certainly calls for a scalable and flexible scheme for addressing and manipulating the atoms. We have now made this a reality by implementing a fast and versatile method to dynamically control the position of neutral atoms trapped in optical tweezers. The tweezers result from a spatial light modulator (SLM) controlling and shaping a large number of optical dipole-force traps. Trapped atoms adapt to any change in the potential landscape, such that one can re-arrange and randomly access individual sites within atom-trap arrays.
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@article{arxiv.1109.0657,
title = {Control and Manipulation of Cold Atoms in Optical Tweezers},
author = {Cecilia Muldoon and Lukas Brandt and Jian Dong and Dustin Stuart and Edouard Brainis and Matthew Himsworth and Axel Kuhn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.0657},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures