S. Uetake

Simultaneous magneto-optical trapping of lithium and ytterbium atoms towards production of ultracold polar molecules (2009)

Okano, M., Hara, H., Muramatsu, M., Doi, K., Uetake, S., Takasu, Y., ...

We have successfully implemented the first simultaneous magneto-optical trapping (MOT) of lithium ($^6$Li) and ytterbium ($^{174}$Yb) atoms, towards production of ultracold polar molecules of LiYb....

A scalable quantum computer with an ultranarrow optical transition of ultracold neutral atoms in an optical lattice (2009)

Shibata, K., Kato, S., Yamaguchi, A., Uetake, S., Takahashi, Y.

We propose a new quantum-computing scheme using ultracold neutral ytterbium atoms in an optical lattice. The nuclear Zeeman sublevels define a qubit. This choice avoids the natural phase evolution...

Inelastic Collisions in Optically Trapped Ultracold Metastable Ytterbium (2008)

Yamaguchi, A., Uetake, S., Hashimoto, D., Doyle, J. M., Takahashi, Y.

We report measurement of inelastic loss in dense and cold metastable ytterbium (Yb[$^3P_2$]). Use of an optical far-off-resonance trap enables us to trap atoms in all magnetic sublevels, removing...