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Based on an experimental study of two-body and three-body collisions in ultracold strontium samples, a novel optical-sympathetic cooling method in isotopic mixtures is demonstrated. Without evaporative cooling, a phase-space density of…

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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

State-of-the-art individual-atom tweezer platforms have relied on loading schemes based on spatially superimposing the tweezer array with a cloud of cold atoms created beforehand. Together with immanent atom loss, this dramatically limits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-03 Lars Pause , Tilman Preuschoff , Dominik Schäffner , Malte Schlosser , Gerhard Birkl

We present new photonics and electronics packages recently developed by M Squared Lasers specifically tailored for scalable neutral atom quantum computing; a high power 1064 nm system for scalable qubit number, a phase locked system for…

Neutral atoms and molecules trapped in optical tweezers have become a prevalent resource for quantum simulation, computation, and metrology. However, the maximum achievable system sizes of such arrays are often limited by the stochastic…

Quantum simulation aims to recreate complex many-body phenomena in controlled environments, offering insights into dynamics that are otherwise difficult to model. Existing platforms, however, are often complex and costly to scale, typically…

Sympathetic cooling with ultracold atoms and atomic ions enables ultralow temperatures in systems where direct laser or evaporative cooling is not possible. It has so far been limited to the cooling of other microscopic particles, with…

Quantum computation and quantum communication are expected to provide users with capabilities inaccessible by classical physics. However, scalability to larger systems with many qubits is challenging. One solution is to develop a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Lukas Hartung , Matthias Seubert , Stephan Welte , Emanuele Distante , Gerhard Rempe

Neutral atoms in optical tweezer arrays possess broad applicability for quantum information science, in computing, simulation, and metrology. Among atomic species, Ytterbium-171 is unique as it hosts multiple qubits, each of which is…

We develop a method to entangle neutral atoms using cold controlled collisions. We analyze this method in two particular set-ups: optical lattices and magnetic micro-traps. Both offer the possibility of performing certain multi-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 H. -J. Briegel , T. Calarco , D. Jaksch , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

Hyperfine-encoded qubits in alkali atoms have established themselves as robust platforms for quantum computing, while alkaline-earth-like elements expand the state manipulation toolbox through their rich spectrum of optical transitions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Denis Mishin , Dmitry Tregubov , Nikolay Kolachevsky , Artem Golovizin

We use lithium-6 atoms in an optical tweezer array to realize an eight-site Fermi-Hubbard chain near half filling. We achieve single site detection by combining the tweezer array with a quantum gas microscope. By reducing disorder in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-07 Benjamin M. Spar , Elmer Guardado-Sanchez , Sungjae Chi , Zoe Z. Yan , Waseem S. Bakr

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…

Neutral atom quantum computers (NAQCs) are among the most promising computational platforms for quantum computing. Controlling and measuring individual atoms and their states, which often requires multiple imaging and image-analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Jonas Winklmann , Yian Yu , Xiaorang Guo , Korbinian Staudacher , Martin Schulz

We present a scheme for robust finite temperature quantum simulation of stabilizer Hamiltonians. The scheme is designed for realization in a physical system consisting of a finite set of neutral atoms trapped in an addressable optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kevin C. Young , Mohan Sarovar , Jon Aytac , C. M. Herdman , K. Birgitta Whaley

Controllable atomic-scale quantum systems hold great potential as sensitive tools for nanoscale imaging and metrology. Possible applications range from nanoscale electric and magnetic field sensing to single photon microscopy, quantum…

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The realization of a scalable quantum information processor has emerged over the past decade as one of the central challenges at the interface of fundamental science and engineering. Much progress has been made towards this goal. Indeed,…

We demonstrate a miniaturised and highly robust system for performing Doppler-free spectroscopy on thermal atomic vapour for three frequencies as required for cold atom-based quantum technologies. The application of additive manufacturing…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Somya H Madkhaly , Nathan Cooper , Laurence Coles , Lucia Hackermüller

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

Neutral atom arrays are a rapidly developing platform for quantum science. In this work, we demonstrate a universal set of quantum gate operations on a new type of neutral atom qubit: a nuclear spin in an alkaline earth-like atom (AEA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Shuo Ma , Alex P Burgers , Genyue Liu , Jack Wilson , Bichen Zhang , Jeff D Thompson