Sensitive measurement of forces at micron scale using Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms

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7 March 2005

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0503141

Abstract

We show that Bloch oscillations of ultracold fermionic atoms in the periodic potential of an optical lattice can be used for a sensitive measurement of forces at the micrometer length scale, e.g. in the vicinity of dielectric surface. In particular, the proposed approach allows to perform a local and direct measurement of the Casimir-Polder force which is, for realistic experimental parameters, as large as 10^-4 gravity.

Keywords

SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT
BLOCH OSCILLATIONS
ULTRACOLD ATOMS
OSCILLATIONS
MICRON SCALE
USING BLOCH
GRAVITY

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Version 1, 2005-03-07, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 95 (9), 093202.

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