Single atoms and molecules can be trapped in tightly focused beams of light that form ‘optical tweezers’, affording exquisite capabilities for the control and detection of individual particles. This approach has progressed to creating tweezer arrays holding hundreds of atoms, resulting in a platform for controlling large many-particle quantum systems. Here we review this new approach to microscopic control of scalable atomic and molecular neutral quantum systems, its future prospects, and applications in quantum information processing, quantum simulation and metrology.

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量子科学与超冷原子和分子的光镊阵列

单个原子和分子可以被捕获在紧密聚焦的光束中，形成“光学镊子”，为控制和检测单个粒子提供了精湛的能力。这种方法已经发展到创建容纳数百个原子的镊子阵列，从而形成一个用于控制大型多粒子量子系统的平台。在这里，我们回顾了这种对可扩展原子和分子中性量子系统进行微观控制的新方法、其未来前景以及在量子信息处理、量子模拟和计量学中的应用。