Low-Entropy States of Neutral Atoms in Polarization-Synthesized Optical Lattices
Low-Entropy States of Neutral Atoms in Polarization-Synthesized Optical Lattices
We create low-entropy states of neutral atoms by utilizing a conceptually new optical-lattice technique that relies on a high-precision, high-bandwidth synthesis of light polarization. Polarization-synthesized optical lattices provide two fully controllable optical lattice potentials, each of them confining only atoms in either one of the two long-lived hyperfine states. By …