Cooling a Single Atom in an Optical Tweezer to Its Quantum Ground State
We report cooling of a single neutral atom to its three-dimensional vibrational ground state in an optical tweezer. After employing Raman sideband cooling for tens of milliseconds, we measure via sideband spectroscopy a three-dimensional ground-state occupation of about 90%. We further observe coher...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2012-11-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041014 |