Nanophotonic cavity QED with multiple trapped atoms

Realization of coherent atom interactions mediated by photons in optical cavity QED has been a long-standing goal in AMO physics.~We present a new method for trapping and cooling two atoms near a nanophotonic cavity [1], and describe our progress towards preparing an entangled state of two atoms mediated by the cavity photons. Our approach can be extended to realizing an efficient quantum state transfer and quantum gates [2], with applications to integrated quantum networks. [1] J. D. Thompson, T. G. Tiecke, N. P. de Leon, J. Feist, A. V. Akimov, M. Gullans, A. S. Zibrov, V. Vuletic, and M. D. Lukin, Science 340, 1202 (2013) [2] T. G. Tiecke, J. D. Thompson, N. P. de Leon, L. R. Liu, V. Vuletic and M. D. Lukin, Nature 508, 241 (2014)