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title: "Online Seminar: Cavity-enabled real-time observation of individual atomic collisions"
date: "2025-02-12T21:00:36+00:00"
modified: "2025-12-07T19:17:46+00:00"
url: "https://www.quantum-machines.co/resources/videos/online-seminar-cavity-enabled-real-time-observation-of-individual-atomic-collisions/"
description: "This seminar underscores the potential of optical cavities for scalable quantum systems."
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# Online Seminar: Cavity-enabled real-time observation of individual atomic collisions

### Online Seminar: Cavity-enabled real-time observation of individual atomic collisions

High-cooperativity optical cavities represent a powerful tool for advancing neutral-atom quantum computing and probing fundamental atomic physics. This seminar presents recent research from Prof. Vladan Vuletić’s lab at MIT, showcasing fast, nondestructive, number-resolved detection of atoms confined within a novel bow-tie optical cavity, which further enables real-time observation of individual atomic collisions. Combining this capability with adaptive feedback control, the researchers demonstrate single-atom preparation with a remarkable success rate of 92(2)%. These results underscore the potential of optical cavities for scalable quantum systems and open the door to new investigations of cold atomic collisions. arXiv:2411.12622.

The seminar is presented Dr. David Spierings with Dr. Ramon Szmuk co-hosting the event.