Technique - (15) Cavity-QED single-atom trapping

Type: Experimental

Description: Trapping single neutral atoms in high-finesse optical or fibre-tip microcavities for deterministic single-photon generation and strong light-matter coupling.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics – Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université | Multimode Quantum Optics Group – Parigi sub-team (LKB) @ Sorbonne
Summary:

Parigi co-leads the Multimode Quantum Optics group at LKB alongside Treps. Research directions: (1) Multimode squeezed-state quantum networks — generating large-scale entangled cluster states using optical frequency combs; reconfigurable graph-state topologies for measurement-based quantum computing and distributed quantum sensing; (2) Multimode quantum sensing — using multimode squeezed states for simultaneous beyond-shot-noise estimation of multiple parameters (wavelengths, phases) in a spectrometer; (3) Non-Gaussian quantum states — heralded subtraction and addition of photons to Gaussian cluster states for universal CV quantum computation; (4) Quantum networks at telecom — generating multimode squeezed states compatible with fiber transmission. ERC Laureate. Employed by Sorbonne Université.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics / Niels Bohr Institute | Quantum Metrology Group (Schäffer/Müller) @ UCPH
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Stefan Schäffer leads the Quantum Metrology group at NBI together with Jörg Müller. Research focuses on superradiant strontium lasers: (1) quasi-continuous superradiant lasing with sub-natural linewidth; (2) Ramsey spectroscopy enhanced by cavity sub-to-superradiant phase transitions for improved atomic clock sensing; (3) continuous atom beam for Dicke-effect-free superradiant interrogation. Key work published in PRL (2023) and Nature Communications (2024). Part of EU iqClock and ESA collaborations.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Schleier-Smith Lab @ Stanford
Summary:

Schleier-Smith's group uses optical-cavity-mediated interactions to entangle and spin-squeeze ensembles of trapped neutral atoms, generating metrologically useful entangled states for quantum-enhanced sensing, and is developing modular, networked atom-cavity systems as building blocks for distributed quantum sensor arrays and simulators.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Simon Lab @ Stanford
Summary:

Simon's lab engineers strong, atom-mediated interactions between photons in optical cavities -- using Rydberg dressing of intracavity atoms -- to synthesize interacting quantum photonic matter and study fundamental nonclassical light phenomena, effectively building tunable many-body systems out of light itself.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Sinclair Lab (IMAQ Lab) @ UWMadison
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Builds neutral-atom-array platforms coupled to optical cavities to explore nonlocal entanglement for modular fault-tolerant quantum computing and distributed quantum sensor networks; also works on quantum error correction and quantum foundations.