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Big news from the lab! After months of hard work, we’ve successfully developed both a broadband red MOT and a single-frequency red MOT. The atom density is up to two orders of magnitude larger than in the blue MOT, while the temperature is approximately 10 micro Kelvin. Now we’re excited to take the next step—time to trap some atoms in optical tweezers! |
Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers are great for quantum technologies! We are building the first Italian platform based on programmable arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms. We use strontium, which provides states with long coherence time and state-selective transitions enabling advanced manipulation and readout schemes for novel approaches to quantum simulation and quantum computation.