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All-electronic Nanosecond-resolved Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Facilitating the Investigation of Single Dopant Charge Dynamics
Published on: January 19, 2018
Sublattice addressing and spin-dependent motion of atoms in a double-well lattice
P J Lee1, M Anderlini, B L Brown
1Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.
Abstract:
We load atoms into every site of an optical lattice and selectively spin flip atoms in a sublattice consisting of every other site. These selected atoms are separated from their unselected neighbors by less than an optical wavelength. We also show spin-dependent transport, where atomic wave packets are coherently separated into adjacent sites according to their internal state. These tools should be useful for quantum information processing and quantum simulation of lattice models with neutral atoms.
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