3D Projection Sideband Cooling

Abstract

We demonstrate 3D microwave projection sideband cooling of trapped, neutral atoms. The technique employs state-dependent potentials that enable microwave photons to drive vibration-number reducing transitions. The particular cooling sequence we employ uses minimal spontaneous emission, and works even for relatively weakly bound atoms. We cool 76% of atoms to their 3D vibrational ground states in a site-resolvable 3D optical lattice.

5 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material included. To appear in Physical Review Letters

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• Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
• Single-Atom Resolved Fluorescence Imaging of an Atomic Mott Insulator
• Quantum Simulation of Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains in an Optical Lattice
• Ground state cooling of atoms in optical lattices

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