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We have atoms trapped in optical tweezers! The journey has been long, and the excitement in the lab was palpable when we saw the first signatures in fluorescence imaging. The next important step will be to implement light-assisted collisions and in-trap cooling to reach single atom occupancy per tweezer! |
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.