Quantum atomic and molecular gases are flexible systems for studies of fundamental many-
body physics. They have traditionally been produced in harmonic electromagnetic traps and …

Rydberg atoms with principal quantum number n⪢ 1 have exaggerated atomic properties
including dipole-dipole interactions that scale as n 4 and radiative lifetimes that scale as n 3 …

Structured light refers to the generation and application of custom light fields. As the tools
and technology to create and detect structured light have evolved, steadily the applications …

There has been an immense drive in modern microscopy towards miniaturization and fibre-
based technology. This has been necessitated by the need to access hostile or difficult …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses optical dipole traps for neutral atoms. Methods
for storage and trapping of charged and neutral particles have very often served as the …

We demonstrate three-dimensional trapping of individual Rydberg atoms in holographic
optical bottle beam traps. Starting with cold, ground-state Rb 87 atoms held in standard …

A computer-generated hologram is used to form an optical beam with a localized intensity
null at its focus. The beam is a superposition of two Laguerre–Gaussian modes that are …

The physics of optical vortices, also known as twisted light, is now a well-established and a
growing branch of optical physics with a number of important applications and significant …

A Majorana zero bound mode exists in the vortex core of a chiral p+ ip superconductor or
superfluid, which can be driven from an s-wave pairing state by two-dimensional spin-orbit …

We report the realization of a new iterative Fourier-transform algorithm for creating
holograms that can diffract light into an arbitrary two-dimensional intensity profile. We show …