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Parallel assembly of neutral atom arrays with an SLM using linear phase interpolation

Ivo H. A. Knottnerus, Yu Chih Tseng (曾于誌), Alexander Urech, Robert J. C. Spreeuw, Florian Schreck

SciPost Phys. 19, 118 (2025) · published 31 October 2025

Abstract

We present fast parallel rearrangement of single atoms in optical tweezers into arbitrary geometries by updating holograms displayed by an ultra fast spatial light modulator. Using linear interpolation of the tweezer position and the optical phase between the start and end arrays, we can calculate and display holograms every few ms, limited by technology. To show the versatility of our method, we sort the same atomic sample into multiple geometries with success probabilities of $0.996(2)$ per rearrangement cycle. This makes the method a useful tool for rearranging large atom arrays for quantum computation and quantum simulation.

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