High performance imaging of $^{171}$Yb atom in shallow clock-magic tweezer by alternating dual-tone narrowline cooling

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Main Authors: Song, Yunheung, Kim, Kangheun, Han, Jeong Ho, Oh, Seungtaek, Mun, Jongchul
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author Song, Yunheung
Kim, Kangheun
Han, Jeong Ho
Oh, Seungtaek
Mun, Jongchul
author_facet Song, Yunheung
Kim, Kangheun
Han, Jeong Ho
Oh, Seungtaek
Mun, Jongchul
contents We demonstrate imaging $^{171}$Yb single atoms in clock-magic tweezers of 759.4 nm wavelength, with above 99.9% fidelity and survival. We use alternating dual-tone narrowline imaging for more efficient three-dimensional cooling in tweezers, allowing several-millisecond imaging in 200 $μ$K trap depth, which is half of typical depth used for imaging in clock-magic tweezers. Accordingly, even without repumping, imaging survival is still close to 99.9% with the high fidelity, which can enable high performance nondestructive qubit measurements based on metastable shelving. Moreover, our simulation predicts that more optimal configuration could further reduce the trap depth, as improving the imaging performance. This imaging capability in shallow traps opens high performance imaging for more general trap wavelength, and lays the foundation for large scale systems over 1,000 qubits, and highly repeatable tweezer clocks.
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spellingShingle High performance imaging of $^{171}$Yb atom in shallow clock-magic tweezer by alternating dual-tone narrowline cooling
Song, Yunheung
Kim, Kangheun
Han, Jeong Ho
Oh, Seungtaek
Mun, Jongchul
Atomic Physics
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
We demonstrate imaging $^{171}$Yb single atoms in clock-magic tweezers of 759.4 nm wavelength, with above 99.9% fidelity and survival. We use alternating dual-tone narrowline imaging for more efficient three-dimensional cooling in tweezers, allowing several-millisecond imaging in 200 $μ$K trap depth, which is half of typical depth used for imaging in clock-magic tweezers. Accordingly, even without repumping, imaging survival is still close to 99.9% with the high fidelity, which can enable high performance nondestructive qubit measurements based on metastable shelving. Moreover, our simulation predicts that more optimal configuration could further reduce the trap depth, as improving the imaging performance. This imaging capability in shallow traps opens high performance imaging for more general trap wavelength, and lays the foundation for large scale systems over 1,000 qubits, and highly repeatable tweezer clocks.
title High performance imaging of $^{171}$Yb atom in shallow clock-magic tweezer by alternating dual-tone narrowline cooling
topic Atomic Physics
Quantum Gases
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27498