Nanofabricated atom optics: Atom chips |
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| Authors: | Karolina Brugger Tommaso Calarco Donatella Cassettari Ron Folman Albrecht Haase Björn Hessmo |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universit?t Innsbruck , A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria;2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universit?t Innsbruck , A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria;3. ECT? , Villa Tambosiu, Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38050, Villazzano, Italy;4. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universit?t Innsbruck , A-6020, Innsbruck, Austria;5. Department of Quantum Chemistry , Uppsala University , S-75120, Uppsala, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Small tight trapping and guiding potentials can be created for neutral atoms moving microns above surfaces patterned with nanofabricated charged and current-carrying structures. Surfaces holding such structures form atom chips which, for coherent matter wave optics, may form the basis for a variety of novel applications and research tools, similar to integrated circuits in electronics. In this paper we describe the basic principles of atom chip experiments. |
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