An ytterbium quantum gas microscope with narrow-line laser cooling

R Yamamoto, J Kobayashi, T Kuno, K Kato… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate site-resolved imaging of individual bosonic ${}^{174}\mathrm {Yb} $ atoms
in a Hubbard-regime two-dimensional optical lattice with a short lattice constant of 266 nm …

magnetic quadrupole transition in neutral strontium

J Trautmann, D Yankelev, V Klüsener, AJ Park… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We present a detailed investigation of the ultranarrow magnetic-quadrupole S 0 1-P 2 3
transition in neutral strontium and show how it can be made accessible for quantum …

High-resolution spectroscopy and single-photon Rydberg excitation of reconfigurable ytterbium atom tweezer arrays utilizing a metastable state

D Okuno, Y Nakamura, T Kusano, Y Takasu… - Journal of the Physical …, 2022 - journals.jps.jp
We present an experimental system for Rydberg tweezer arrays with ytterbium (Yb) atoms
featuring internal state manipulation between the ground 1S0 and metastable 3P2 states …

Engineering quantum control with optical transitions induced by twisted light fields

T Zanon-Willette, F Impens, E Arimondo, D Wilkowski… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
A form of quantum control is proposed by applying twisted light, also known as optical vortex
beams, to drive ultranarrow atomic transitions in neutral Ca, Mg, Yb, Sr, Hg, and Cd bosonic …

Control of resonant interaction between electronic ground and excited states

S Kato, S Sugawa, K Shibata, R Yamamoto… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We observe magnetic Feshbach resonances in a collision between the ground and
metastable states of two-electron atoms of ytterbium (Yb). We measure the on-site …

Doppler spectroscopy of an ytterbium Bose-Einstein condensate on the clock transition

A Dareau, M Scholl, Q Beaufils, D Döring, J Beugnon… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We describe Doppler spectroscopy of Bose-Einstein condensates of ytterbium atoms using a
narrow optical transition. We address the optical clock transition around 578 nm between the …

Laser spectroscopic probing of coexisting superfluid and insulating states of an atomic Bose–Hubbard system

S Kato, K Inaba, S Sugawa, K Shibata… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A system of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice has been regarded as an ideal quantum
simulator for a Hubbard model with extremely high controllability of the system parameters …

Frequency of the ultranarrow transition in

O Onishchenko, S Pyatchenkov, A Urech, CC Chen… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We determine the frequency of the ultranarrow Sr 87 S 0 1-P 2 3 transition by spectroscopy
of an ultracold gas. This transition is referenced to four molecular iodine lines that are …

Robust quantum sensors with twisted-light fields induced optical transitions

T Zanon-Willette, F Impens, E Arimondo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
A new class of quantum engineered robust sensors is proposed by applying twisted-light
also known as optical vortex beams to drive ultra-narrow atomic transitions in neutral Ca …

Observation of long-lived van der Waals molecules in an optical lattice

S Kato, R Yamazaki, K Shibata, R Yamamoto… - Physical Review A …, 2012 - APS
We observe long-lived tightly bound van der Waals molecules of ytterbium in a three-
dimensional optical lattice with a lifetime of 8.0 s. The molecules, state-selectively produced …