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We have demonstrated preparing and rotating single neutral rubidium atoms in an optical ring lattice generated by a spatial light modulator, inserting two atoms into a single microscopic optical potential efficiently by dynamically reshaping the optical dipole trap, trapping single atoms in a blue detuned optical bottle beam trap, and confining single atoms into the Lamb-Dicke regime by combining red and blue detuned optical potentials. In combination with the manipulation of internal states of single atoms, the study is opening a way for research in the field of quantum information processing and quantum simulation. In this paper we review the past works and discuss the prospects.
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Yu, S., He, X., Xu, P. et al. Single atoms in the ring lattice for quantum information processing and quantum simulation. Chin. Sci. Bull. 57, 1931–1945 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5153-8
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