High-Fidelity, Low-Loss State Detection of Alkali-Metal Atoms in Optical Tweezer Traps

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Main Authors: Chow, Matthew N. H., Little, Bethany J., Jau, Yuan-Yu
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author Chow, Matthew N. H.
Little, Bethany J.
Jau, Yuan-Yu
author_facet Chow, Matthew N. H.
Little, Bethany J.
Jau, Yuan-Yu
contents We demonstrate discrimination of ground-state hyperfine manifolds of a cesium atom in an optical tweezer using a simple probe beam with 99.91(2)% detection fidelity and 0.9(2)% detection-driven loss of bright state atoms. Our detection infidelity of 0.09(2)% is an order of magnitude better than previously published low-loss readout results for alkali-metal atoms in optical tweezers. Our low atom loss and high-fidelity state detection eliminates the extra depumping mechanism due to population transfer between excited-state sublevels through V-type stimulated Raman transitions caused by the trap laser when the probe laser is present. In this work, complex optical systems and stringent vacuum pressures are not required.
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spellingShingle High-Fidelity, Low-Loss State Detection of Alkali-Metal Atoms in Optical Tweezer Traps
Chow, Matthew N. H.
Little, Bethany J.
Jau, Yuan-Yu
Quantum Physics
Atomic Physics
We demonstrate discrimination of ground-state hyperfine manifolds of a cesium atom in an optical tweezer using a simple probe beam with 99.91(2)% detection fidelity and 0.9(2)% detection-driven loss of bright state atoms. Our detection infidelity of 0.09(2)% is an order of magnitude better than previously published low-loss readout results for alkali-metal atoms in optical tweezers. Our low atom loss and high-fidelity state detection eliminates the extra depumping mechanism due to population transfer between excited-state sublevels through V-type stimulated Raman transitions caused by the trap laser when the probe laser is present. In this work, complex optical systems and stringent vacuum pressures are not required.
title High-Fidelity, Low-Loss State Detection of Alkali-Metal Atoms in Optical Tweezer Traps
topic Quantum Physics
Atomic Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00144