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Inserting two atoms into a single optical micropotential

We recently demonstrated that strings of trapped atoms inside a standing wave optical dipole trap can be rearranged using optical tweezers [Y. Miroshnychenko et al., Nature, in press (2006)]. This technique allows us to actively set the interatomic separations on the scale of the individual trapping...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2006-06
Main Authors: Miroshnychenko, Y, Alt, W, Dotsenko, I, Foerster, L, Khudaverdyan, M, Meschede, D, Reick, S, Rauschenbeutel, A
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Summary:We recently demonstrated that strings of trapped atoms inside a standing wave optical dipole trap can be rearranged using optical tweezers [Y. Miroshnychenko et al., Nature, in press (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(+4/-3) %, in agreement with the predictions of a theoretical model based on our independently determined experimental parameters.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0606113