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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 117, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.043001
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- Volkswagen-Stiftung (atomic nanoassembler)
- DFG-Forschergruppe [FOR 1493]
- EU
- DFG [FO 703/2-1]
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We realize a single particle microscope by using deterministically extracted laser- cooled Ca-40(+) ions from a Paul trap as probe particles for transmission imaging. We demonstrate focusing of the ions to a spot size of 5.8 +/- 1.0 nm and a minimum two-sample deviation of the beam position of 1.5 nm in the focal plane. The deterministic source, even when used in combination with an imperfect detector, gives rise to a fivefold increase in the signal-to-noise ratio as compared with conventional Poissonian sources. Gating of the detector signal by the extraction event suppresses dark counts by 6 orders of magnitude. We implement a Bayes experimental design approach to microscopy in order to maximize the gain in spatial information. We demonstrate this method by determining the position of a 1 mu m circular hole structure to a precision of 2.7 nm using only 579 probe particles.
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