Eliminating light shifts for single atom trapping
Abstract
Microscopically controlled neutral atoms in optical tweezers and lattices have led to exciting advances in the study of quantum information and quantum many-body systems. The light shifts of atomic levels from the trapping potential in these systems can result in detrimental effects such as fluctuating dipole force heating, inhomogeneous detunings, and inhibition of laser cooling, which limits the atomic species that can be manipulated. In particular, these light shifts can be large enough to prevent loading into optical tweezers directly from a magneto-optical trap. We implement a general solution to these limitations by loading, as well as cooling and imaging the atoms with temporally alternating beams, and present an analysis of the role of heating and required cooling for single atom tweezer loading. Because this technique does not depend on any specific spectral properties, it should enable the optical tweezer platform to be extended to nearly any atomic or molecular species that can be laser cooled and optically trapped.
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© 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. Received 26 October 2016. Accepted 18 January 2017. Published 2 February 2017. We thank Adam Kaufman, Jeff Thompson, and Mikhail Lukin for many helpful discussions; Sebastien Garcia for feedback on the manuscript; and Yu Liu and Jessie Zhang for experimental assistance. NRH acknowledges support from Harvard Quantum Optics Center. This work is supported by the NSF through the Harvard-MIT CUA (grant PHY-1125846), as well as the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (grant FA9550-15-1-0260), the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation (grant FG-2015-65253), and the William Milton Fund.Attached Files
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- Alternative title
- Eliminating light shifts in single-atom optical traps
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- Harvard Quantum Optics Center
- PHY-1125846
- NSF
- FA9550-15-1-0260
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
- FG-2015-65253
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- William Milton Fund
- Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms
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