The Quantum Gas Microscope

POSTER

Abstract

Ultracold quantum gases are seen as models for studying questions of modern condensed matter physics because they provide a clean way of implementing fundamental Hamiltonians for complex many-body physics. In addition, they also provide novel ways of preparing the ensemble and of extracting information about the resulting many-body state from the system. We present an experiment to realize a 2D quantum gas with very high aspect ratio close to a dielectric surface as well as a 2D optical lattice geometry. The gas is positioned at the focus of a high numerical aperture optical microscope, providing a way for high resolution preparation, manipulation and analysis of the ensemble. Our novel trapping techniques allow us to generate a smooth trap and long trapping life times despite the vicinity of the substrate.

*Work supported by NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, Sloan.

Authors

  • Jonathon Gillen

    • Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
    • Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and Department of Physics Harvard University

  • Waseem Bakr

    • Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University

  • Amy Peng

    • Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University

  • Simon F\"olling

    • Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University

  • Markus Greiner

    • Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and Dept. of Physics, Harvard University