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We report on the realization of a platform for trapping and manipulating individual $^{88}$Sr atoms in optical tweezers. A first cooling stage based on a blue shielded magneto-optical trap (MOT) operating on the $^1S_0$ -> $^1P_1$…

We outline an experimental setup for efficiently preparing a tweezer array of $^{88}$Sr atoms. Our setup uses permanent magnets to maintain a steady-state two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (MOT) which results in a loading rate of up to…

We introduce a new method, rooted in estimation theory, to detect individual atoms in site-resolved images of microtrap arrays, such as optical lattices or optical tweezers arrays. Using labelled test images, we demonstrate drastic…

Arrays of optical tweezers form the backbone of neutral atoms analog and digital quantum processors. However, the inter-trap distance remains generally much larger than the size of the tweezers to avoid interference-induced trap…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Kelvin Lim , Vincent Mancois , Haijun Wu , Yijie Shen , David Wilkowski

The preparation of large, low-entropy, highly coherent ensembles of identical quantum systems is foundational for many studies in quantum metrology, simulation, and information. Here, we realize these features by leveraging the favorable…

Optical tweezers have become essential tools to manipulate atoms or molecules at a single particle level. However, using standard diffracted-limited optical systems, the transverse size of the trap is lower bounded by the optical…

Arrays of single ultracold molecules promise to be a powerful platform for many applications ranging from quantum simulation to precision measurement. Here we report on the creation of an optical tweezer array of single ultracold CaF…

Engineering controllable, strongly interacting many-body quantum systems is at the frontier of quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Arrays of laser-cooled neutral atoms in optical tweezers have emerged as a promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Samuel Saskin , Jack Wilson , Brandon Grinkemeyer , Jeff Thompson

We present a complete architecture for scalable quantum computation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices using optical tweezers focused to the size of a lattice spacing. We discuss three different two-qubit gates based on local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 Christof Weitenberg , Stefan Kuhr , Klaus Mølmer , Jacob F. Sherson

We demonstrate single-shot imaging and narrow-line cooling of individual alkaline earth atoms in optical tweezers; specifically, strontium-88 atoms trapped in $515.2~\text{nm}$ light. We achieve high-fidelity single-atom-resolved imaging by…

Recent advances in quantum simulation based on neutral atoms have largely benefited from high-resolution, single-atom sensitive imaging techniques. A variety of approaches have been developed to achieve such local detection of atoms in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Renhao Tao , Maximilian Ammenwerth , Flavien Gyger , Immanuel Bloch , Johannes Zeiher

Neutral atom quantum processors are a promising platform for large-scale quantum computing. Integrating them with an optical cavity enables fast nondestructive qubit readout and access to fast remote entanglement generation for quantum…

An original optical tweezers using one or two chemically etched fiber nano-tips is developed. We demonstrate optical trapping of 1 micrometer polystyrene spheres at optical powers down to 2 mW. Harmonic trap potentials were found in the…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-09 Jean-Baptiste Decombe , Serge Huant , Jochen Fick

We consider the coupling of light, via an optical cavity, to two-dimensional atomic arrays whose lattice spacing exceeds the wavelength of the light. Such 'superwavelength' spacing is typical of optical tweezer arrays. While subwavelength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Yakov Solomons , Inbar Shani , Ofer Firstenberg , Nir Davidson , Ephraim Shahmoon

We report on the implementation of an optical tweezer system for controlled transport of ultracold atoms along a narrow, static confinement channel. The tweezer system is based on high-efficiency acousto-optical deflectors and offers…

Recent proposals have suggested the use of supervised learning with convolutional neural networks to shed light on some of the less well known phases of the Fermi-Hubbard model through the classification of snapshots from the quantum gas…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-06 Stephanie Striegel , Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla , Ehsan Khatami

Optical tweezers have become essential tools for dynamically manipulating objects, ranging from microspheres or biological molecules to neutral atoms. In this study, we demonstrate the creation of tweezer arrays using a generative neural…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-22 Zejian Ren , Xu Yan , Kai Wen , Huijin Chen , Elnur Hajiyev , Chengdong He , Gyu-Boong Jo

We propose a method for separating trapped atoms in optical lattices by large distances. The key idea is the cyclic transfer of atoms between two lattices of variable spacing, known as accordion lattices, each covering at least a factor of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-19 Simon Wili , Tilman Esslinger , Konrad Viebahn

This paper presents a routine to align an optical tweezer on a single trapped ion and use the ion as a probe to characterize the tweezer. We find a smallest tweezer waist of $2.3(2)\,\mu$m, which is in agreement with the theoretical minimal…

We use ultracold spin--1/2 atomic fermions ($^6$Li) to realize the Hubbard model on a three-dimensional (3D) optical lattice. At relatively high temperatures and at densities near half-filling, we show that the gas forms a Mott insulator…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-17 Randall G. Hulet , Pedro M. Duarte , Russell A. Hart , Tsung-Lin Yang