Abstract
We recently demonstrated that strings of trapped atoms inside a standing wave optical dipole trap can be rearranged using optical tweezers [Y. Miroshnychenko et al., Nature 442, 151 (2006)]. This technique allows us to actively set the interatomic separations on the scale of the individual trapping potential wells. Here, we use such a distance-control operation to insert two atoms into the same potential well. The detected success rate of this manipulation is , in agreement with the predictions of a theoretical model based on our experimental parameters.
- Received 9 June 2006
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.243003
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