Minimally Destructive Fast Imaging of Single Atoms in an Optical Tweezer Array with Coherent Excitation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24175v1
• Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 19:53:05 GMT
• Title: Minimally Destructive Fast Imaging of Single Atoms in an Optical Tweezer Array with Coherent Excitation
• Abstract summary: We propose a minimally destructive single-atom imaging by coherent excitation of atoms with alternately applied pi-pulses from counter-propagating directions.<n>We experimentally demonstrate fast and low-loss single-atom imaging with a discrimination fidelity of 99.89(5) % and a survival probability of 98.80(44) % in 17.6 microseconds.
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• Abstract: Ultracold neutral atoms in an optical lattice and an optical tweezer array offer highly-controllable quantum many-body systems, utilized for various quantum science and technology such as quantum computing, quantum metrology, and quantum simulation. By combining high-fidelity imaging of individual atoms, one can further enhance the capability of such experimental platforms as quantum gas microscopes, tweezer clocks, and tweezer-array-based quantum computers. In this work, we propose a minimally destructive single-atom imaging by deterministic coherent excitation of atoms with alternately applied pi-pulses from counter-propagating directions, mitigating the fundamental heating effect associated with the stochastic absorption process. Using ytterbium-174 atoms trapped in an optical tweezer array, we experimentally demonstrate fast and low-loss single-atom imaging with a discrimination fidelity of 99.89(5) % and a survival probability of 98.80(44) % in 17.6 microseconds. Importantly, our scheme exhibits the lower heating rate, about half of that of the former scheme utilizing the incoherent excitation. This fast and minimally destructive imaging scheme is beneficial for relaxing the requirement on the trap depth, thereby enabling scalable atom imaging across a wide range of quantum science platforms.

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