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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 12: Poster – Cold Atoms and Molecules, Matter Waves (joint session Q/A/MO)

MO 12.9: Poster

Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 14:00–16:00, Tent

Developing a quantum gas microscope with programmable lattices — Sarah Waddington¹, Isabelle Safa¹, Tom Schubert¹, •Rodrigo Rosa-Medina¹, and Julian Léonard^1,2 — ¹Atominstitut, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria — ²Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria

Experiments with ultracold atoms in optical lattices offer a versatile platform for engineering and probing strongly correlated quantum matter. While quantum gas microscopy has significantly advanced the field, enabling unprecedented single-site resolution, current experimental setups are often constrained by rigid lattice configurations and slow cycle times.

Here, we present our ongoing efforts to design and build a next-generation quantum gas microscope for fermionic and bosonic lithium atoms. Our approach relies on atom-by-atom assembly of small lattice systems employing auxiliary optical tweezers combined with all-optical cooling techniques to facilitate sub-second experimental cycles. By leveraging holographic projection techniques, we create tailored optical lattices with dynamically reconfigurable geometries. Our approach opens diverse research avenues, ranging from quantum simulation of fractional quantum Hall states to frustrated phases with unconventional geometries.

Keywords: Quantum Gas Microscope; Optical Lattice; Optical Tweezers; Quantum Simulation