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most citedUltracold collisions of a neutral atom with a trapped ion in 1D

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physics.atom-ph20252 cited

Ultracold collisions of a neutral atom with a trapped ion in 1D

Seth T. Rittenhouse, Lorenzo Oghittu, Arghavan Safavi-Naini +2

We present a fully quantum mechanical description of a free Li atom scattering from a trapped Yb ion in one dimension. By reformulating the system in polar coordina…

cond-mat.quant-gas20251 cited

Confinement-induced resonances for the creation of quasi-one-dimensional ultra cold gases of alkali--alkaline-earth dimers

Lorenzo Oghittu, Premjith Thekkeppatt, Nirav P. Mehta +4

We theoretically investigate the role of confinement-induced resonances (CIRs) in low-dimensional ultracold atomic mixtures for the formation of weakly bound dimers. To this end, w…

quant-ph2025

Quadratic spin-phonon coupling and bipolarons in trapped ions

L. P. H. Gallagher, M. Mazzanti, Z. E. D. Ackerman +3

We consider the quantum simulation of quadratic spin-phonon coupling in a crystal of trapped ions. The coupling is implemented using tightly focused optical tweezers on each ion th…

quant-ph2025

Non-paraxial effects on laser-qubit operations

L. P. H. Gallagher, M. Mazzanti, Z. E. D. Ackerman +3

Tightly-focused laser beams, or optical tweezers, are essential for analogue and digital quantum simulation with neutral atoms and trapped ions. Despite this, most of the current i…

quant-ph2024

Alignment and Optimisation of Optical Tweezers on Trapped Ions

M. Mazzanti, C. Robalo Pereira, N. A. Diepeveen +7

This paper presents a routine to align an optical tweezer on a single trapped ion and use the ion as a probe to characterize the tweezer. We find a smallest tweezer waist of $2.3(2…

quant-ph2023

Fast quantum state preparation and bath dynamics using non-Gaussian variational ansatz and quantum optimal control

Liam J. Bond, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Jiří Minář

We combine quantum optimal control with a variational ansatz based on non-Gaussian states for fast, non-adiabatic preparation of quantum many-body states. We demonstrate this on th…