Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2015 May 15;114(19):193001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.193001. Epub 2015 May 13.
We realize a quantum-gas microscope for fermionic ^{40}K atoms trapped in an optical lattice, which allows one to probe strongly correlated fermions at the single-atom level. We combine 3D Raman sideband cooling with high-resolution optics to simultaneously cool and image individual atoms with single-lattice-site resolution at a detection fidelity above 95%. The imaging process leaves the atoms predominantly in the 3D motional ground state of their respective lattice sites, inviting the implementation of a Maxwell's demon to assemble low-entropy many-body states. Single-site-resolved imaging of fermions enables the direct observation of magnetic order, time-resolved measurements of the spread of particle correlations, and the detection of many-fermion entanglement.
我们实现了一种用于囚禁在光晶格中的费米子 ^{40}K 原子的量子气体显微镜,它可以在单原子水平上探测强关联费米子。我们将 3D Raman 边带冷却与高分辨率光学相结合,以单晶格点分辨率同时冷却和成像单个原子,检测保真度高于 95%。成像过程使原子主要处于各自晶格位置的三维运动基态,这为实现麦克斯韦妖来组装低熵多体态提供了可能。对费米子的单原子分辨成像能够直接观察到磁序、粒子相关性的时间分辨测量,以及多费米子纠缠的探测。