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Optical tweezers are highly versatile laser traps for neutral microparticles, with fundamental applications in physics and in single molecule cell biology. Force measurements are performed by converting the stiffness response to…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-30 R S Dutra , N B Viana , P A Maia Neto , H M Nussenzveig

Atomic systems, ranging from trapped ions to ultracold and Rydberg atoms, offer unprecedented control over both internal and external degrees of freedom at the single-particle level. They are considered among the foremost candidates for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 G. Pagano , F. Scazza , M. Foss-Feig

Assembling and maintaining large arrays of individually addressable atoms is a key requirement for continued scaling of neutral-atom-based quantum computers and simulators. In this work, we demonstrate a new paradigm for assembly of atomic…

Precise control of particle positioning is desirable in many optical propulsion and sorting applications. Here, we develop an integrated platform for particle manipulation consisting of a combined optical nanofiber and optical tweezers…

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors while compensating for the inevitable drift of the optical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin Houston , Richard Liu , Gerd Duscher , Sergei Kalinin

Reliable preparation of entanglement between distant systems is an outstanding problem in quantum information science and quantum communication. In practice, this has to be accomplished via noisy channels (such as optical fibers) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-01 Liang Jiang , Jacob M. Taylor , Navin Khaneja , Mikhail D. Lukin

Since the pioneering work of Arthur Ashkin, optical tweezers have become an indispensable tool for contactless manipulation of micro- and nanoparticles. Nowadays optical tweezers are employed in a myriad of applications demonstrating the…

Optically levitated dielectric nanoparticles have become valuable tools for precision sensing and quantum optomechanical experiments. To predict the dynamic properties of a particle trapped in an optical tweezer with high fidelity, a tool…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-20 Moosung Lee , Tobias Hanke , Sara Launer , Sungkun Hong

A machine-learning-based framework for constructing generator-level observables optimized for parameter extraction in particle physics analyses is introduced, referred to as the Optimal Observable Machine (OOM). Unfoldable differential…

High-precision micromanipulation techniques, including optical tweezers and hydrodynamic trapping, have garnered wide-spread interest. Recent advances in optofluidic multiplexed assembly and microrobotics demonstrate significant progress,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Elena Erben , Ivan Saraev , Weida Liao , Fan Nan , Eric Lauga , Moritz Kreysing

This paper proposes a scalable planning algorithm for creating defect-free atom arrays in neutral-atom systems. The algorithm generates a $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt N)$ time plan for $N$ atoms by parallelizing atom transport using a two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Koki Aoyama , Takafumi Tomita , Fumihiko Ino

We describe and analyze an architecture for quantum optimization to solve maximum independent set (MIS) problems using neutral atom arrays trapped in optical tweezers. Optimizing independent sets is one of the paradigmatic, NP-hard problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Hannes Pichler , Sheng-Tao Wang , Leo Zhou , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

We propose and theoretically analyze methods for quantum many-body control through geometric reshaping of molecular tweezer arrays. Dynamic rearrangement during entanglement is readily available due to the extended coherence times of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Jiaqi You , John M. Doyle , Zirui Liu , Scarlett S. Yu , Avikar Periwal

We present an optimal control procedure for the non-adiabatic transport of ultracold neutral thermal atoms in optical tweezers arranged in a one-dimensional array, with focus on reaching minimal transfer time. The particle dynamics are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Omar Morandi , Sara Nicoletti , Vladislav Gavryusev , Leonardo Fallani

Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a vital step to ensure printability in modern VLSI manufacturing. Various OPC approaches based on machine learning have been proposed to pursue performance and efficiency, which are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaoxiao Liang , Haoyu Yang , Kang Liu , Bei Yu , Yuzhe Ma

Movable single atoms have drawn significant attention for their potentials as flying quantum memory in non-local, dynamic quantum computing architectures. However, when dynamic optical tweezers are employed to control atoms…

Computational methods for electromagnetic and light scattering can be used for the calculation of optical forces and torques. Since typical particles that are optically trapped or manipulated are on the order of the wavelength in size,…

Particle sensing in optical tweezers systems provides information on the position, velocity and force of the specimen particles. The conventional quadrant detection scheme is applied ubiquitously in optical tweezers experiments to quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-07 Jian Wei Tay , Magnus T. L. Hsu , Warwick P. Bowen

Programmable arrays of optical traps enable the assembly of configurations of single atoms to perform controlled experiments on quantum many-body systems. Finding the sequence of control operations to transform an arbitrary configuration of…

A general quantum limit to the sensitivity of particle position measurements is derived following the simple principle of the Heisenberg microscope. The value of this limit is calculated for particles in the Rayleigh and Mie scattering…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-04 Michael A. Taylor , Joachim Knittel , Warwick P. Bowen