Optical tweezers for a bottom-up assembly of few-atom systems

Tightly focused laser beams form optical tweezers that can hold and manipulate individual atoms. They give superb control over microscopic quantum systems and have paved the way for bottom up assembly of few-atom systems. Such assembled systems provide an ideal starting point for many fundamental st...

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Published inAdvances in physics: X Vol. 7; no. 1
Main Author Andersen, Mikkel F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis 31.12.2022
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Assembly
atom-atom interactions
Atomic interactions
Atoms & subatomic particles
Electric fields
Energy
Experiments
Laser beams
Lasers
Light
Optical tweezers
Physics
single atom
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ISSN2374-6149
2374-6149
DOI10.1080/23746149.2022.2064231

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Summary:Tightly focused laser beams form optical tweezers that can hold and manipulate individual atoms. They give superb control over microscopic quantum systems and have paved the way for bottom up assembly of few-atom systems. Such assembled systems provide an ideal starting point for many fundamental studies of atomic interactions and few-atom phenomena. Here we review the present stage of these fields, as well as some of the basic experimental techniques required for these experiments Figure from [74].
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ISSN:2374-6149
2374-6149
DOI:10.1080/23746149.2022.2064231