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Controlling individual atoms with optical tweezers

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Date

2023

Authors

Weyland, Marvin
Andersen, Mikkel F
Hobbs, Rhys A. B.
Sanchez, Lucile
Ruksasakchai, Poramaporn
Szigeti, Stuart

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Volume Title

Publisher

SPIE - The Internatonal Society for Optics and Photonics

Abstract

We capture individual rubidium-85 atoms in steerable optical tweezers with high efficiency to study atomic interactions with a known number of atoms. These tweezers allow us to capture and move individual atoms, and to prepare them in a specific quantum states. We show the usefulness of this platform to study atomic interactions like individual molecule formation and spin changing collisions.

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Keywords

atomic physics, individual atoms, molecule formation, spin changing collisions

Citation

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https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733713969

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Proceedings of SPIE Volume 12649, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XX

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Conference paper

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Open Access

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DOI

10.1117/12.2682492

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