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Optical Tweezer 2D — Potential-Well & Phase-Space Recapture

2D optical-tweezer simulator: watch a cold atom move on the exact Gaussian dipole-potential field and in radial phase space, then run the release-recapture thermometry experiment used on real trapped single atoms.

Quantum Physics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

The same exact Gaussian-beam dipole potential as the 3D optical tweezer lab, reduced to the meridional plane where it lives as a genuine 2-degree-of-freedom system. Watch the atom move across a live 2D heatmap of its own potential energy, read its state as a radial phase-space loop, and run the real release-recapture thermometry technique physicists use to measure a trapped atom's temperature.

⚙ Under the hood

Watch a single laser-cooled atom move across a live 2D heatmap of its own Gaussian-beam potential energy and in radial phase space, then run the real release-recapture thermometry experiment physicists use to measure a trapped atom's temperature.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install