EQuAL Seminar: Harry Levine

New Flavors of Quantum Control with Atoms in Optical Tweezers

Individual atoms in optical tweezers offer a well-developed toolbox for high-fidelity quantum control, enabling rapid advancements in quantum processing. I will discuss our new efforts at UC Berkeley to further expand this toolbox along two directions. First, I will discuss the prospects for ultrafast single-atom measurements by using squeezed light as a quantum-enhanced probe. Second, I will outline our plans to control the spatial wavefunction of a single atom by coherently splitting it into two optical tweezers -- a single atom "here" and "there" at the same time - and will discuss the challenges and prospects for preserving coherence in such exotic quantum states.