Narrowline cooling of dysprosium atoms in an optical tweezer array
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| author | Biagioni, Giulio Hofer, Britton Bonvalet, Nathan Bloch, Damien Browaeys, Antoine Ferrier-Barbut, Igor |
| author_facet | Biagioni, Giulio Hofer, Britton Bonvalet, Nathan Bloch, Damien Browaeys, Antoine Ferrier-Barbut, Igor |
| contents | We perform narrowline cooling of single dysprosium atoms trapped in a 1D optical tweezers array, employing the narrow single-photon transition at 741 nm. At the trapping wavelength of 532 nm, the excited state is less trapped than the ground state. To obtain efficient cooling performances, we chirp the frequency of the cooling beam to subsequently address the red sidebands of different motional states. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the cooling protocol through Raman thermometry, which we characterize for our experimental conditions. We obtain an array of 75 atoms close to the motional ground state in the radial direction of the tweezers. Our results demonstrate the possibility to manipulate the motional degree of freedom of dysprosium in optical tweezers arrays, a key ingredient to exploit the potential of lanthanide-based tweezers platforms for quantum science. |
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| spellingShingle | Narrowline cooling of dysprosium atoms in an optical tweezer array Biagioni, Giulio Hofer, Britton Bonvalet, Nathan Bloch, Damien Browaeys, Antoine Ferrier-Barbut, Igor Atomic Physics Quantum Gases We perform narrowline cooling of single dysprosium atoms trapped in a 1D optical tweezers array, employing the narrow single-photon transition at 741 nm. At the trapping wavelength of 532 nm, the excited state is less trapped than the ground state. To obtain efficient cooling performances, we chirp the frequency of the cooling beam to subsequently address the red sidebands of different motional states. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the cooling protocol through Raman thermometry, which we characterize for our experimental conditions. We obtain an array of 75 atoms close to the motional ground state in the radial direction of the tweezers. Our results demonstrate the possibility to manipulate the motional degree of freedom of dysprosium in optical tweezers arrays, a key ingredient to exploit the potential of lanthanide-based tweezers platforms for quantum science. |
| title | Narrowline cooling of dysprosium atoms in an optical tweezer array |
| topic | Atomic Physics Quantum Gases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03456 |