Manipulation and control of molecular beams

SYT van de Meerakker, HL Bethlem… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The motion of neutral molecules in a beam can be manipulated and controlled with
inhomogeneous electric and magnetic fields. Static fields can be used to deflect or focus …

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 …

Bose–Einstein condensation on a microelectronic chip

W Hänsel, P Hommelhoff, TW Hänsch, J Reichel - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Abstract Although Bose–Einstein condensates,, of ultracold atoms have been experimentally
realizable for several years, their formation and manipulation still impose considerable …

Microscopic atom optics: from wires to an atom chip

R Folman, P Krüger, J Schmiedmayer… - Advances in atomic …, 2002 - Elsevier
Scientific and technological progress in the last decades has proven that miniaturization and
integration are important steps towards the robust application of fundamental physics, be it …

Controlling fast transport of cold trapped ions

A Walther, F Ziesel, T Ruster, ST Dawkins, K Ott… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We realize fast transport of ions in a segmented microstructured Paul trap. The ion is
shuttled over a distance of more than 10 4 times its ground state wave function size during …

Atom-Atom Scattering under Cylindrical Harmonic Confinement: Numerical<? format?> and Analytic Studies of the Confinement Induced Resonance

T Bergeman, MG Moore, M Olshanii - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
It was recently predicted [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 938 (1998) PRLTAO 0031-9007
10.1103/PhysRevLett. 81.938] that atom-atom scattering under transverse harmonic …

Fast atomic transport without vibrational heating

E Torrontegui, S Ibáñez, X Chen, A Ruschhaupt… - Physical Review A …, 2011 - APS
We use the dynamical invariants associated with the Hamiltonian of an atom in a one
dimensional moving trap to inverse engineer the trap motion and perform fast atomic …

Deterministic delivery of a single atom

S Kuhr, W Alt, D Schrader, M Muller, V Gomer… - Science, 2001 - science.org
We report the realization of a deterministic source of single atoms. A standing-wave dipole
trap is loaded with one or any desired number of cold cesium atoms from a magneto-optical …

Microchip traps and Bose–Einstein condensation

J Reichel - Applied Physics B, 2002 - Springer
The article gives an overview of the rapidly evolving field of magnetic microchip traps (also
called 'atom chips') for neutral atoms. Special attention is given to Bose–Einstein …

Micro-optical Realization of Arrays of Selectively Addressable Dipole Traps:<? format?> A Scalable Configuration for Quantum Computation with Atomic Qubits

R Dumke, M Volk, T Müther, FBJ Buchkremer, G Birkl… - Physical review …, 2002 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate novel structures for the realization of registers of atomic
qubits: We trap neutral atoms in one-and two-dimensional arrays of far-detuned dipole traps …