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Programmable optical tweezer arrays of molecules are an emerging platform for quantum simulation and quantum information science. For these applications, reducing and mitigating errors that arise during initial state preparation and…

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Realizing a large-scale fully controllable quantum system is a challenging task in current physical research and has broad applications. Ultracold atom and molecule arrays in optical tweezers in vacuum have been used for quantum simulation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-11 Jiangwei Yan , Xudong Yu , Zheng Vitto Han , Tongcang Li , Jing Zhang

Models of interacting quantum spins are used in many areas of physics ranging from the study of magnetism and strongly correlated materials to quantum sensing. In this work, we study coherent many-body dynamics of interacting spin models…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-20 Yukai Lu , Connor M. Holland , Callum L. Welsh , Xing-Yan Chen , Lawrence W. Cheuk

We show how state-dependent optical potentials can be used to trap a pair of molecules in different internal states at a separation much smaller than the wavelength of the trapping light. This close spacing greatly enhances the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-05 L. Caldwell , M. R. Tarbutt

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…

Atom arrays have emerged as a powerful platform for quantum light-matter interfaces, yet single-species arrays are constrained by in-plane symmetry, restricting polarization control. Here we investigate the cooperative optical response of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Huan Wang , Shangguo Zhu , Yun Long , Fei Zhang , Yinghui Guo , Mingbo Pu , Xiangang Luo

Reconfigurable neutral-atom arrays are a promising platform for quantum computing, quantum simulation, and quantum metrology, but atom transport using frequency-chirped acousto-optic deflectors (AODs) is limited by chirp-induced acoustic…

We prepare high-filling two-component arrays of up to fifty fermionic atoms in optical tweezers, with the atoms in the ground motional state of each tweezer. Using a stroboscopic technique, we configure the arrays in various two-dimensional…

Optical tweezers are a powerful tool for creating defect-free arrays of atoms and molecules, enabling advances in quantum simulation, computation, and precision metrology. However, the achievable array size is limited by the initial loading…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Archie C. Baldock , Alex J. Matthies , Luke Caldwell , Hannah J. Williams

Integrating nanophotonics and cold atoms has drawn increasing interest in recent years due to diverse applications in quantum information science and the exploration of quantum many-body physics. For example, dispersion-engineered photonic…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-04 X. Luan , J. -B. Béguin , A. P. Burgers , Z. Qin , S. -P. Yu , H. J. Kimble

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

Polar molecules represent a promising platform for quantum simulation and computation protocols. Highly controllable arrays of optical tweezers are now accessible in experiments, allowing for unprecedented control of individual molecules.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Sakthikumaran Ravichandran , Piotr Kulik , Krzysztof Jachymski

We describe a simple and compact experimental setup for optical tweezer arrays of 87Rb atoms. This setup includes a compact vacuum system, a single cooling laser, a simple tweezer laser, and a flexible control system. The small vacuum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-15 Xue Zhao , Xiao Wang , Wentao Yang , Xiaoyu Dai , Yirong Wang , Guangren Sun , Fangshi Jia , Kuiyi Gao , Wei Zhang

We investigate the photoassociation dynamics of exactly two laser-cooled $^{85}$Rb atoms in an optical tweezer and reveal fundamentally different behavior to photoassociation in many-atom ensembles. We observe non-exponential decay in our…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 M. Weyland , S. S. Szigeti , R. A. B. Hobbs , P. Ruksasakchai , L. Sanchez , M. F. Andersen

The realization of an efficient quantum optical interface for multi-qubit systems is an outstanding challenge in science and engineering. Using two atoms in individually-controlled optical tweezers coupled to a nanofabricated photonic…

We use optical tweezers based on time-multiplexed acousto-optic deflectors to trap ultra-cold cesium atoms in one-dimensional arrays of atomic ensembles. For temperatures between 2.5 $\mu$K and 50 nK we study the maximal time between…

We present a three-dimensional steerable optical tweezer system based on two pairs of acousto-optic deflectors. Radio frequencies used to steer the optical tweezers are generated by direct digital synthesis and multiple cross beam dipole…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-17 C. S. Chisholm , R. Thomas , A. B. Deb , N. Kjærgaard

We propose an experimental architecture where an array of optical tweezers affords site-dependent control over the confining potential of a conventional radio-frequency ion trap. The site-dependent control enables programmable manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Yi Hong Teoh , Manas Sajjan , Zewen Sun , Fereshteh Rajabi , Rajibul Islam

Polar molecules are a quantum resource with rich internal structure that can be coherently controlled. The structure, however, also makes the state preparation and measurement (SPAM) of molecules challenging. We advance the SPAM of…

We report cooling of a single neutral atom to its three-dimensional vibrational ground state in an optical tweezer. After employing Raman sideband cooling for tens of milliseconds, we measure via sideband spectroscopy a three-dimensional…

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