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Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers (2023)
Journal Article
Ruttley, D. K., Guttridge, A., Spence, S., Bird, R. C., Le Sueur, C. R., Hutson, J. M., & Cornish, S. L. (2023). Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers. Physical Review Letters, 130(22), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.130.223401

We demonstrate the formation of a single RbCs molecule during the merging of two optical tweezers, one containing a single Rb atom and the other a single Cs atom. Both atoms are initially predominantly in the motional ground states of their respectiv... Read More about Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers.

Preparation of 87Rb and 133Cs in the motional ground state of a single optical tweezer (2022)
Journal Article
Spence, S., Brooks, R., Ruttley, D., Guttridge, A., & Cornish, S. (2022). Preparation of 87Rb and 133Cs in the motional ground state of a single optical tweezer. New Journal of Physics, 24, https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac95b9

We report simultaneous Raman sideband cooling of a single 87Rb atom and a single 133Cs atom held in separate optical tweezers at 814 nm and 938 nm, respectively. Starting from outside the Lamb-Dicke regime, after 45 ms of cooling we measure probabili... Read More about Preparation of 87Rb and 133Cs in the motional ground state of a single optical tweezer.