"Quantum science with alkaline earth atoms in optical tweezers"
Abstract: I will present an informal introduction to the burgeoning field of optical tweezer arrays, focusing on the use of highly-excited Rydberg states to enable deterministic entanglement and many-body physics. I will describe how alkaline earth atoms fit into this landscape and summarize the state-of-the-art. Finally, I will give a flavor of our research program that, for the first time, will employ isotopes of alkaline earth atoms with non-zero nuclear spin to encode information in "computational" and "auxiliary" nuclear spin qubits in the metastable "clock" state and the ground state, respectively. Other group members will elaborate on this scheme and our goals in subsequent talks.
This talk is intended for local QIS researchers at the University of Illinois; please do not share it more broadly. The link will be sent to the IQUIST mailing lists before the seminar.
