Super-resolution optical trapping of multiple cold atoms
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| author | Lim, Kelvin Mancois, Vincent Wu, Haijun Shen, Yijie Wilkowski, David |
| author_facet | Lim, Kelvin Mancois, Vincent Wu, Haijun Shen, Yijie Wilkowski, David |
| contents | 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 distortions, limiting the trap density. Here, we report single-atom trapping in four super-resolved tweezers, meaning with a separation below the Sparrow diffraction limit. The optical pattern is generated using superoscillatory phenomenon leading to subwavelength traps with full control of the trap relative phases. We investigate two sets of relative phases that impede or allow the hopping and the reshuffling of atoms. We envision that superoscillatory light structuring will bridge the gap between large-distance traps generated by tweezer arrays and short-distance traps formed with optical lattices. |
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| spellingShingle | Super-resolution optical trapping of multiple cold atoms Lim, Kelvin Mancois, Vincent Wu, Haijun Shen, Yijie Wilkowski, David Atomic Physics Optics 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 distortions, limiting the trap density. Here, we report single-atom trapping in four super-resolved tweezers, meaning with a separation below the Sparrow diffraction limit. The optical pattern is generated using superoscillatory phenomenon leading to subwavelength traps with full control of the trap relative phases. We investigate two sets of relative phases that impede or allow the hopping and the reshuffling of atoms. We envision that superoscillatory light structuring will bridge the gap between large-distance traps generated by tweezer arrays and short-distance traps formed with optical lattices. |
| title | Super-resolution optical trapping of multiple cold atoms |
| topic | Atomic Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07177 |