Lunt Philipp, Hill Paul, Reiter Johannes, Preiss Philipp M, Gałka Maciej, Jochim Selim
<a href="https://ror.org/038t36y30">Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg</a>, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
<a href="https://ror.org/01vekys64">Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics</a>, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Phys Rev Lett. 2024 Dec 20;133(25):253401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.253401.
We realize a Laughlin state of two rapidly rotating fermionic atoms in an optical tweezer. By utilizing a single atom and spin resolved imaging technique, we sample the Laughlin wave function thereby revealing its distinctive features, including a vortex distribution in the relative motion, correlations in the particles' relative angle, and suppression of the interparticle interactions. Our Letter lays the foundation for atom-by-atom assembly of fractional quantum Hall states in rotating atomic gases.