Towards the implementation of extended Hubbard models in an erbium quantum gas microscope

Quantum gas microscopes are a powerful tool for controlled single-site resolved studies of many-body quantum systems. In our erbium quantum gas microscope, we combine technical improvements such as fast cycle time and fast high-resolution imaging with the ability to implement extended Hubbard models with dipolar interactions between erbium atoms. Here we present the progress on creating a lattice system of erbium atoms by loading them into a low-disorder, 266 nm spacing optical lattice. Single-site resolution imaging is enabled by transferring the atoms into a variable-spacing accordion lattice, where we demonstrate single-site imaging with >99.5% fidelity imaging with less than 10 microseconds of resonant pulses. Finally, we discuss how we can leverage these capabilities for quantum simulation of exotic phases in a lattice system.