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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 16: Ultracold Matter III – Fermions (joint session Q/A)
Q 16.6: Talk
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 12:15–12:30, P 2
Ytterbium quantum gases under the microscope — •Philipp Lunt1,2, Riccardo Panza2, Sandra Sbernardori2, Fabrizio Barbuio2, Alessandro Muzi Falconi2, Matteo Marinelli2, and Francesco Scazza2 — 1Universität Heidelberg, Physikalisches Insitut, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226 — 2ArQuS Laboratory, CNR Edificio Q2, Trieste, Italy
In this talk, I will present the realization of a single-atom resolved quantum gas of ultracold ytterbium atoms under the microscope. This system provides a unique platform for exploring fermionic quantum many-body physics at the single-atom level, featuring a long-lived metastable state ideal for coherent qubit encoding and the simulation of multi-orbital models. Central to this work is a fast, high-fidelity, and low-loss single-atom imaging technique that enables atom re-use in quantum processors and atomic clocks [1,2].
[1] O. Abdel Karim et al 2025 Quantum Sci. Technol. 10 045019 [2] A. Muzi Falconi et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01011 (2025)
Keywords: quantum gas microscope; single-atom imaging; fermionic ytterbium; SU(N) physics; multi-orbital models