Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope
Haller, Elmar and Hudson, James and Kelly, Andrew and Cotta, Dylan A. and Peaudecerf, Bruno and Bruce, Graham D. and Kuhr, Stefan (2015) Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope. Nature Physics, 11. pp. 738-742. ISSN 1745-2473 (https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3403)
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Abstract
Single-atom-resolved detection in optical lattices using quantum-gas microscopes has enabled a new generation of experiments in the field of quantum simulation. While such devices have been realised with bosonic species, a fermionic quantum-gas microscope has remained elusive. Here we demonstrate single-site- and single-atom-resolved fluorescence imaging of fermionic potassium-40 atoms in a quantum-gas microscope setup, using electromagnetically-induced-transparency cooling. We detected on average 1000 fluorescence photons from a single atom within 1.5s, while keeping it close to the vibrational ground state of the optical lattice. A quantum simulator for fermions with single-particle access will be an excellent test bed to investigate phenomena and properties of strongly correlated fermionic quantum systems, allowing for direct measurement of ordered quantum phases and out-of-equilibrium dynamics, with access to quantities ranging from spin-spin correlation functions to many-particle entanglement.
ORCID iDs
Haller, Elmar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7951-1721, Hudson, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5859-5033, Kelly, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1128-4323, Cotta, Dylan A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-7834, Peaudecerf, Bruno, Bruce, Graham D. and Kuhr, Stefan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8386-5357;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 54023 Dates: DateEvent1 September 2015Published13 July 2015Published Online15 June 2015AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 20 Aug 2015 09:22 Last modified: 05 Oct 2024 00:22 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54023