Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping
Abstract
Trapped neutral atoms are one of the leading platforms for quantum information technologies, in particular for quantum computing, but scaling them to array sizes needed for utility-scale quantum computing is a major engineering challenge. Here we review optical metasurfaces as an enabling technology that provides fine control over the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light, with pixel counts far exceeding what is available with spatial light modulators (SLMs) and other active devices. The large pixel counts have recently led to demonstrations of arrays of optical tweezers with hundreds of thousands of sites and arrays of optical bottle-beams with complex three-dimensional trapping profiles. The flexibility and scalability of optical metasurfaces provides a route towards miniaturized, integrated, and highly scalable atomic experiments and instruments.
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BibTeX
@misc{fang2026metasurfaces,
title = {{Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping}},
author = {Chengyu Fang and Minjeong Kim and Mark Saffman and Jennifer T. Choy and Mikhail Kats},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.30498},
eprint = {2605.30498},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30498},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Metasurfaces for neutral-atom trapping
AU - Chengyu Fang
AU - Minjeong Kim
AU - Mark Saffman
AU - Jennifer T. Choy
AU - Mikhail Kats
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30498
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30498
AB - Trapped neutral atoms are one of the leading platforms for quantum information technologies, in particular for quantum computing, but scaling them to array sizes needed for utility-scale quantum computing is a major engineering challenge. Here we review optical metasurfaces as an enabling technology that provides fine control over the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light, with pixel counts far exceeding what is available with spatial light modulators (SLMs) and other active devices. The large pixel counts have recently led to demonstrations of arrays of optical tweezers with hundreds of thousands of sites and arrays of optical bottle-beams with complex three-dimensional trapping profiles. The flexibility and scalability of optical metasurfaces provides a route towards miniaturized, integrated, and highly scalable atomic experiments and instruments.
ER -