Coherence and Raman Sideband Cooling of a Single Atom in an Optical Tweezer

We investigate quantum control of a single atom in a tightly focused optical tweezer trap. We show that inevitable spatially varying polarization gives rise to significant internal-state decoherence but that this effect can be mitigated by an appropriately chosen magnetic bias field. This enables Ra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thompson, J. D., Zibrov, A. S., Lukin, M. D., Tiecke, Tobias G., Vuletic, Vladan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79588
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538