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We demonstrate a continuous output coupler for magnetically trapped atoms. Over a period of up to 100 ms a collimated and monoenergetic beam of atoms is continuously extracted from a Bose- Einstein condensate. The intensity and kinetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Immanuel Bloch , Theodor W. Haensch , Tilman Esslinger

The optical tweezer experiment with neutral atoms is a focal topic in cold atom physics due to its significant potential in quantum computing and simulation. Here, we present the realization of a dual-species optical tweezer for both Rb and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Yangbo Wei , Kedi Wei , Shangjin Li , Bo Yan

Arrays of neutral-atom qubits in optical tweezers are a promising platform for quantum computation. Despite experimental progress, a major roadblock for realizing neutral atom quantum computation is the qubit initialization. Here we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Xi-Wang Luo , Mark G. Raizen , Chuanwei Zhang

We report on Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas of strontium atoms, using laser cooling as the only cooling mechanism. The condensate is formed within a sample that is continuously Doppler cooled to below 1\muK on a narrow-linewidth…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-24 Simon Stellmer , Benjamin Pasquiou , Rudolf Grimm , Florian Schreck

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of neutral atoms constitute an important quantum system for fundamental research and precision metrology. Many applications require short preparation times of BECs, for example, for optimized data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mareike Hetzel , Martin Quensen , Jan Simon Haase , Carsten Klempt

We demonstrate an atom laser using all-optical techniques. A Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium atoms is created by direct evaporative cooling in a quasistatic dipole trap realized with a single, tightly focused CO$_{2}$-laser beam. An…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Giovanni Cennini , Gunnar Ritt , Carsten Geckeler , Martin Weitz

Neutral atom quantum processors are a promising platform for scalable quantum computing. An obstacle to implementing deep quantum circuits is managing atom loss, which constitutes a significant fraction of all errors. Current approaches are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Yiyi Li , Yicheng Bao , Michael Peper , Chenyuan Li , Jeff D. Thompson

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is a powerful tool for a wide range of research activities, a large fraction of which are related to quantum simulations. Various problems may benefit from different atomic species, but cooling down novel…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2020-07-22 E. T. Davletov , V. V. Tsyganok , V. A. Khlebnikov , D. A. Pershin , D. V. Shaykin , A. V. Akimov

We describe a self-biased, fully permanent magnet atom chip used to study ultracold atoms and to produce a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The magnetic trap is loaded efficiently by adiabatic transport of a magnetic trap via the application…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-24 T. Fernholz , R. Gerritsma , S. Whitlock , I. Barb , R. J. C. Spreeuw

A continuous wave atom laser formed by the outcoupling of atoms from a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) potentially has a range of metrological applications. However, in order for the device to be truly continuous, a mechanism to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-08 Geoffrey M. Lee , Simon A. Haine , Ashton S. Bradley , Matthew J. Davis

We present the first successful trapping of single erbium atoms in an array of optical tweezers. Using a single narrow-line optical transition, we achieve deep cooling for direct tweezer loading, pairwise ejection, and continous imaging…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 D. S. Grün , S. J. M. White , A. Ortu , A. Di Carli , H. Edri , M. Lepers , M. J. Mark , F. Ferlaino

We report an experiment of creating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on an atom chip. The chip based Z-wire current and a homogeneous bias magnetic field create a tight magnetic trap, which allows for a fast production of BEC. After an 4.17s…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Bo Yan , Feng Cheng , Min Ke , Xiaolin Li , Jiuyao Tang , Yuzhu Wang

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

Optical tweezer arrays have transformed atomic and molecular physics, now forming the backbone for a range of leading experiments in quantum computing, simulation, and metrology. Typical experiments trap tens to hundreds of atomic qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Hannah J. Manetsch , Gyohei Nomura , Elie Bataille , Kon H. Leung , Xudong Lv , Manuel Endres

Trapping of single ultracold atoms is an important tool for applications ranging from quantum computation and communication to sensing. However, most experimental setups, while very precise and versatile, can only be operated in specialized…

Quantum reservoir computing is a type of machine learning in which the high-dimensional Hilbert space of quantum systems contributes to performance. In this study, we employ the Bose-Einstein condensate of dilute atomic gas as a reservoir…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-23 Yuki Kurokawa , Junichi Takahashi , Yoshiya Yamanaka

Ex vacuo atom chips, used in conjunction with a custom thin walled vacuum chamber, have enabled the rapid replacement of atom chips for magnetically trapped cold atom experiments. Atoms were trapped in $>2$ kHz magnetic traps created using…

We report on parallel production of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in steerable, multi-plexed crossed optical dipole traps. Using a conventional trap-weakening evaporation scheme, where the optical trapping power is lowered, we obtain an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-21 Amita Deb , Thomas McKellar , Niels Kjærgaard

We present programmable two-dimensional arrays of microscopic atomic ensembles consisting of more than 400 sites with nearly uniform filling and small atom number fluctuations. Our approach involves direct projection of light patterns from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Y. Wang , S. Shevate , T. M. Wintermantel , M. Morgado , G. Lochead , S. Whitlock