Atomic Micromanipulation with Magnetic Surface Traps
- 25 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (17) , 3398-3401
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.3398
Abstract
We describe manipulation of neutral atoms using the magnetic field of microfabricated current-carrying conductors. It is shown how this method can be used to achieve adiabatic magnetic transport from one reservoir to another. In the first experimental realization of a microfabricated magnetic neutral-atom trap, efficient loading is achieved with a novel mirror-magneto-optic trap. A cloud of rubidium atoms is stored and compressed using the magnetic field of a “U”-shaped wire carrying a current of 2 A. An evaporation mechanism is demonstrated which removes hot atoms from the trap by collisions with the substrate surface.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
- Dynamics of Single-Atom Motion Observed in a High-Finesse CavityPhysical Review Letters, 1999
- Guiding Neutral Atoms with a WirePhysical Review Letters, 1999
- Miniaturized Wire Trap for Neutral AtomsPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical LatticesPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Micro-electromagnets for atom manipulationApplied Physics Letters, 1998
- Real-Time Cavity QED with Single AtomsPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Magnetic Waveguide for Trapping Cold Atom Gases in Two DimensionsPhysical Review Letters, 1998
- Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed AtomsPhysical Review Letters, 1997
- Microscopic magnetic traps for neutral atomsPhysical Review A, 1995
- Quantized atom-field force at the surface of a microsphereOptics Letters, 1994