2006/06/13 by Y. Miroshnychenko, Wolfgang Alt, W. Alt +10 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.97.243003
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 243003 (2006) · 4 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2006/06/13 · openalex publication_date 2006/12/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
We recently demonstrated that strings of trapped atoms inside a standing wave optical dipole trap can be rearranged using optical tweezers [Y. Miroshnychenko, Nature 442, 151 (2006)]. This technique allows us to actively set the interatomic separations on the scale of the individual trapping potential wells. Here, we use such a distance-control operation to insert two atoms into the same potential well. The detected success rate of this manipulation is 16(-3)(+4)%, in agreement with the predictions of a theoretical model based on our experimental parameters.