Magnetic microtraps for ultracold atoms

J Fortágh, C Zimmermann - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2007 - APS
Trap** and manipulating ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases in magnetic
micropotentials is reviewed. Starting with a comprehensive description of the basic concepts …

[HTML][HTML] Compact chip-scale guided cold atom gyrometers for inertial navigation: Enabling technologies and design study

CL Garrido Alzar - AVS Quantum Science, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This work reviews the topic of rotation sensing with compact cold atom interferometers. A
representative set of compact free-falling cold atom gyroscopes is considered because, in …

Atom Michelson interferometer on a chip using a Bose-Einstein condensate

YJ Wang, DZ Anderson, VM Bright, EA Cornell, Q Diot… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
An atom Michelson interferometer is implemented on an “atom chip.” The chip uses
lithographically patterned conductors and external magnetic fields to produce and guide a …

Bose-Einstein condensate in a random potential

JE Lye, L Fallani, M Modugno, DS Wiersma, C Fort… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
An optical speckle potential is used to investigate the static and dynamic properties of a
Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of disorder. With small levels of disorder, stripes …

Impact of the Casimir-Polder Potential and Johnson Noise<? format?> on Bose-Einstein Condensate Stability Near Surfaces

Y Lin, I Teper, C Chin, V Vuletić - Physical Review Letters, 2004 - APS
We investigate the stability of magnetically trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates and
thermal clouds near the transition temperature at small distances 0.5 μ m≤ d≤ 10 μ m from …

A high-accuracy algorithm for designing arbitrary holographic atom traps

M Pasienski, B DeMarco - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We report the realization of a new iterative Fourier-transform algorithm for creating
holograms that can diffract light into an arbitrary two-dimensional intensity profile. We show …

Bose-Einstein condensate in a box

TP Meyrath, F Schreck, JL Hanssen, CS Chuu… - Physical Review A …, 2005 - APS
Bose-Einstein condensates have been produced in an optical box trap. This optical trap type
has strong confinement in two directions comparable to that which is possible in an optical …

A disordered insulator in an optical lattice

M Pasienski, D McKay, M White, B DeMarco - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Disorder can profoundly affect the transport properties of a wide range of quantum materials.
At present, significant disagreement exists regarding features of the disordered Bose …

Ultracold atoms confined in rf-induced two-dimensional trap** potentials

Y Colombe, E Knyazchyan, O Morizot… - Europhysics …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the experimental implementation of a new trap for cold atoms proposed by O.
Zobay and BM Garraway (Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 1195). It relies on adiabatic potentials …

Sub-10 nm device fabrication in a transmission electron microscope

MD Fischbein, M Drndić - Nano letters, 2007 - ACS Publications
We show that a high-resolution transmission electron microscope can be used to fabricate
metal nanostructures and devices on insulating membranes by nanosculpting metal films …