Conveners
Optical tweezers I
- Kang-Kuen Ni (Harvard University)
- Chair: V. Ahufinger
- Adam Kaufman (JILA, CU, NIST)
- Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique, CNRS)
This talk will present our recent work on the use of arrays of Rydberg atoms to study quantum magnetism and to generate entangled states useful for quantum metrology. We rely on laser-cooled ensembles of up to hundred individual atoms trapped in microscopic optical tweezer arrays. By exciting the atoms into Rydberg states, we make them interact by the resonant dipole interaction. The system...
Optical tweezer trapping of neutral atom arrays has been a rapidly progressing platform for quantum information science, enabling control and detection of 100s of individual atomic qubits, and incorporation of different kinds of interactions. While pioneering work focused on alkali species, there has been recent exploration of a new type of atom - alkaline-earth(-like) atoms - for optical...
Advances in quantum manipulation of molecules bring unique opportunities: the use of molecules to search for new physics; exploring chemical reactions in the ultra-low temperature regime; and harnessing molecular resources for quantum simulation and computation. I will introduce our approaches to building individual ultracold molecules in optical tweezer arrays with full quantum state control....
