Cooling a single atom in an optical tweezer to its quantum ground state

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kaufman, A M ^a   Lester, B J ^a   Regal, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic and molecular physics; Quantum information; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; COHERENT CONTROL; DIPOLAR MOLECULES; FOCUSED BEAMS; LOGIC APPLICATIONS; NEUTRAL ATOMS; QUANTUM GROUND STATE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM LOGIC GATE; QUANTUM PHYSICS; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; RAMAN SIDEBANDS; RYDBERG; SINGLE ATOMS; TRAPPED ATOMS; ULTRA-COLD; VIBRATIONAL GROUND STATE;

COOLING; GROUND STATE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATOMS;

EID: 84872383604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041014     Document Type: Article

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