title: Quantum engineering: an atom-sorting machine.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Bonn, 53115 Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Yevhen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miroshnychenko
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Alt
authors.forename: Igor
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dotsenko
authors.forename: Leonid
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Förster
authors.forename: Mkrtych
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khudaverdyan
authors.forename: Dieter
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Meschede
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schrader
authors.forename: Arno
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rauschenbeutel