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 …

We propose a review of recent developments on entanglement and nonclassical effects in
collective two-atom systems and present a uniform physical picture of the many predicted …

We review recent developments in the physics of ultracold atomic and molecular gases in
optical lattices. Such systems are nearly perfect realisations of various kinds of Hubbard …

We review recent theoretical advances in cold atom physics concentrating on strongly
correlated cold atoms in optical lattices. We discuss recently developed quantum optical …

We investigate the dynamics of neutral atoms in a 2D optical lattice which traps two distinct
internal states of the atoms in different columns. Two Raman lasers are used to coherently …

The exponential growth in the rate at which information can be communicated through an
optical fibre is a key element in the 'information revolution'. However, as for all exponential …

The ability to manipulate individual atoms, ions or photons allows controlled engineering of
the quantum state of small sets of trapped particles; this is necessary to encode and process …

We review here the studies performed about interactions in an assembly of cold Rydberg
atoms. We focus especially on the review of the dipole–dipole interactions and on the effect …

Scientific and technological progress in the last decades has proven that miniaturization and
integration are important steps towards the robust application of fundamental physics, be it …

We analyze the operating regimes of a very small optical dipole trap, loaded from a magneto-
optical trap, as a function of the atom loading rate, ie, the number of atoms per second …