In-situ Imaging of a Single-Atom Wave Packet in Continuous Space

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05699v1
• Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 17:32:07 GMT
• Title: In-situ Imaging of a Single-Atom Wave Packet in Continuous Space
• Authors: Joris Verstraten, Kunlun Dai, Maxime Dixmerias, Bruno Peaudecerf, Tim de Jongh, Tarik Yefsah,
• Abstract summary: We use quantum gas microscopy to image the in-situ spatial distribution of deterministically prepared single-atom wave packets as they expand in a plane. We achieve this by controllably projecting the expanding wavefunction onto the sites of a deep optical lattice and subsequently performing single-atom imaging.
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• Abstract: The wave nature of matter remains one of the most striking aspects of quantum mechanics. Since its inception, a wealth of experiments has demonstrated the interference, diffraction or scattering of massive particles. More recently, experiments with ever increasing control and resolution have allowed imaging the wavefunction of individual atoms. Here, we use quantum gas microscopy to image the in-situ spatial distribution of deterministically prepared single-atom wave packets as they expand in a plane. We achieve this by controllably projecting the expanding wavefunction onto the sites of a deep optical lattice and subsequently performing single-atom imaging. The protocol established here for imaging extended wave packets via quantum gas microscopy is readily applicable to the wavefunction of interacting many-body systems in continuous space, promising a direct access to their microscopic properties, including spatial correlation functions up to high order and large distances.

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