Single atom detection in ultracold quantum gases: a review of current progress

Abstract

The recent advances in single atom detection and manipulation in experiments with ultracold quantum gases are reviewed. The discussion starts with the basic principles of trapping, cooling and detecting single ions and atoms. The realization of single atom detection in ultracold quantum gases is presented in detail and the employed methods, which are based on light scattering, electron scattering, field ionization and direct neutral particle detection are discussed. The microscopic coherent manipulation of single atoms in a quantum gas is also covered. Various examples are given in order to highlight the power of these approaches to study many-body quantum systems.

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• Single-Atom Resolved Fluorescence Imaging of an Atomic Mott Insulator
• Quantum States and Phases in Driven Open Quantum Systems with Cold Atoms
• Measuring entanglement entropy through the interference of quantum many-body twins
• Cold atoms in cavity-generated dynamical optical potentials
• Quantum Simulation of Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains in an Optical Lattice
• Single-Spin Addressing in an Atomic Mott Insulator
• Oscillations and interactions of dark and dark-bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
• Tuning the scattering length with an optically induced Feshbach resonance
• Spatial quantum noise interferometry in expanding ultracold atom clouds
• Strongly Correlated Quantum Walks in Optical Lattices
• A Quantum Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms
• Camparison of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect for bosons and fermions
• The `Higgs' Amplitude Mode at the Two-Dimensional Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition
• Ultracold atoms out of equilibrium
• Dynamical crystallization in a low-dimensional Rydberg gas
• Coherent Excitation Transfer in a Spin Chain of Three Rydberg Atoms
• Observation of scale invariance and universality in two-dimensional Bose gases
• Strong interaction between light and a single trapped atom without a cavity
• Far-from-equilibrium spin transport in Heisenberg quantum magnets
• Microscopic Observation of Pauli Blocking in Degenerate Fermionic Lattice Gases
• Entanglement with Negative Wigner Function of Three Thousand Atoms Heralded by One Photon
• Non-equilibrium steady-states in a driven-dissipative superfluid
• Mott insulators in strong electric fields
• Experimental demonstration of single-site addressability in a two-dimensional optical lattice
• An atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment
• Imaging and addressing of individual fermionic atoms in an optical lattice
• Cooling to the Ground State of Axial Motion for One Atom Strongly Coupled to an Optical Cavity
• Observation of atom pairs in spontaneous four wave mixing of two colliding Bose-Einstein Condensates
• An ytterbium quantum gas microscope with narrow-line laser cooling
• Quantum dynamics with spatiotemporal control of interactions in a stable Bose-Einstein condensate
• Beyond mean-field dynamics in open Bose-Hubbard chains
• Nearest-Neighbor Detection of Atoms in a 1D Optical Lattice by Fluorescence Imaging
• Site-resolved imaging of ytterbium atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice
• Trapping and observing single atoms in the dark
• Quantum gas microscopy with spin, atom-number and multi-layer readout
• Ar-39 Detection at the 10^-16 Isotopic Abundance Level with Atom Trap Trace Analysis
• Combination of a magnetic Feshbach resonance and an optical bound-to-bound transition
• Nondestructive imaging of an ultracold lattice gas
• Raman cooling imaging: Detecting single atoms near their ground state of motion
• All-optical formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate for applications in scanning electron microscopy
• Measurement of the atom number distribution in an optical tweezer using single photon counting
• Scanning electron microscopy of Rydberg-excited Bose-Einstein condensates
• Multi-wavelength holography with a single Spatial Light Modulator for ultracold atom experiments
• A Scanning Electron Microscope for Ultracold Atoms
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