Nature442, 151(13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442151a; Received 23 February 2006; Accepted 11 May 2006; Published online 12 July 2006
Quantum engineering: An atom-sorting machine
Yevhen Miroshnychenko1, Wolfgang Alt1, Igor Dotsenko1, Leonid Förster1, Mkrtych Khudaverdyan1, Dieter Meschede1, Dominik Schrader1 and Arno Rauschenbeutel1
Laser cooling and trapping techniques allow us to control and manipulate neutral atoms1. Here we rearrange, with submicrometre precision, the positions and ordering of laser-trapped atoms within strings by manipulating individual atoms with optical tweezers2. Strings of equidistant atoms created in this way could serve as a scalable memory for quantum information3.
