Feasibility of detecting single atoms using photonic bandgap cavities

Preprint

13 February 2004

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/0402093

Abstract

We propose an atom-cavity chip that combines laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms with magnetic microtraps and waveguides to deliver a cold atom to the mode of a fiber taper coupled photonic bandgap (PBG) cavity. The feasibility of this device for detecting single atoms is analyzed using both a semi-classical treatment and an unconditional master equation approach. Single-atom detection seems achievable in an initial experiment involving the non-deterministic delivery of weakly trapped atoms into the mode of the PBG cavity.

Keywords

DETECTING SINGLE ATOMS
PHOTONIC BANDGAP
SINGLE ATOMS
TRAPPED
LASER
PBG

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Version 1, 2004-02-13, ArXiv
Published version: Nanotechnology, 15 (10), S556.

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