Scanning electron microscopy of cold gases

TL;DR

This paper reviews the application of scanning electron microscopy to ultracold quantum gases, highlighting its role in high-resolution imaging, site addressing, and density engineering, and discusses future developments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in using scanning electron microscopy for ultracold gases, emphasizing new experimental capabilities.

Findings

Enhanced in situ imaging of quantum gases

Single site addressing in optical lattices

Precision density engineering achieved

Abstract

Ultracold quantum gases offer unique possibilities to study interacting many-body quantum systems. Probing and manipulating such systems with ever increasing degree of control requires novel experimental techniques. Scanning electron microscopy is a high resolution technique which can be used for in situ imaging, single site addressing in optical lattices and precision density engineering. Here, we review recent advances and achievements obtained with this technique and discuss future perspectives.