Quantum engineering: an atom-sorting machine.
Laser cooling and trapping techniques allow us to control and manipulate neutral atoms. Here we rearrange, with submicrometre precision, the positions and ordering of laser-trapped atoms within strings by manipulating individual atoms with optical tweezers. Strings of equidistant atoms created in this way could serve as a scalable memory for quantum information.
Miroshnychenko
Yevhen
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Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
Alt
Wolfgang
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Dotsenko
Igor
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Förster
Leonid
L
Khudaverdyan
Mkrtych
M
Meschede
Dieter
D
Schrader
Dominik
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Rauschenbeutel
Arno
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