Single-atom imaging of ${}^{173}$Yb in optical tweezers loaded by a five-beam magneto-optical trap

Omar Abdel Karim, Alessandro Muzi Falconi, Riccardo Panza +2

We report on the trapping and imaging of individual ytterbium atoms in arrays of optical tweezers, loaded from a magneto-optical trap (MOT) formed by only five beams in an orthogon…