A ship-in-a-bottle quantum gas microscope for magnetic mixtures

by M. Sohmen, M. J. Mark, M. Greiner, F. Ferlaino
Abstract:
Quantum gas microscopes are versatile and powerful tools for fundamental science as well as promising candidates for enticing applications such as in quantum simulation or quantum computation. Here we present a quantum gas microscopy setup for experiments with highly magnetic atoms of the lanthanoid elements erbium and dysprosium. Our setup features a non-magnetic, non-conducting, large-working-distance, high-numerical-aperture, in-vacuum microscope objective, mounted inside a glue-free quartz glass cell. The quartz glass cell is enclosed by a compact multi-shell ferromagnetic shield that passively suppresses external magnetic field noise by a factor of more than a thousand. Our setup will enable direct manipulation and probing of the rich quantum many-body physics of dipolar atoms in optical lattices, and bears the potential to put exciting theory proposals — including exotic magnetic phases and quantum phase transitions — to an experimental test.
Reference:
A ship-in-a-bottle quantum gas microscope for magnetic mixtures,
M. Sohmen, M. J. Mark, M. Greiner, F. Ferlaino,
SciPost Phys., 15, 182, 2023.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{sohmen2023asi,
      title={A ship-in-a-bottle quantum gas microscope for magnetic mixtures}, 
      author={M. Sohmen and M. J. Mark and M. Greiner and F. Ferlaino},
      year={2023},
	  month = {Nov},
	abstract = {Quantum gas microscopes are versatile and powerful tools for fundamental science as well as promising candidates for enticing applications such as in quantum simulation or quantum computation. Here we present a quantum gas microscopy setup for experiments with highly magnetic atoms of the lanthanoid elements erbium and dysprosium. Our setup features a non-magnetic, non-conducting, large-working-distance, high-numerical-aperture, in-vacuum microscope objective, mounted inside a glue-free quartz glass cell. The quartz glass cell is enclosed by a compact multi-shell ferromagnetic shield that passively suppresses external magnetic field noise by a factor of more than a thousand. Our setup will enable direct manipulation and probing of the rich quantum many-body physics of dipolar atoms in optical lattices, and bears the potential to put exciting theory proposals -- including exotic magnetic phases and quantum phase transitions -- to an experimental test.},
      eprint={2306.05404},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cond-mat.quant-gas},
	  journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume = {15},
	pages = {182},
	  arXiv = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05404},
	url = {https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.5.182},
doi = {10.21468/SciPostPhys.15.5.182}
}