Towards a Rydberg Quantum Simulator at Cryogenic Temperatures

Rydberg atom tweezer arrays have emerged as a powerful platform for quantum simulation and computation. We present progress towards the construction of a cryogenic tweezer array for Cs-133. While previous cryogenic Rydberg setups have focused on obtaining low background gas pressures for allowing the assembly of large unit-filled arrays, our setup is specifically designed to obtain a low-temperature blackbody radiation environment. This will be particularly beneficial for approaches for simulating quantum spin systems that rely on Rydberg dressing or circular Rydberg states by potentially increasing the lifetime of the samples by orders of magnitude. These approaches will allow us to expand the quantum simulation toolbox by exploring a wide variety of XYZ spin Hamiltonians over longer simulation times.