Extracting Atoms on Demand with Lasers
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Atomic Physics
Abstract
We propose a scheme that allows to coherently extract cold atoms from a reservoir in a deterministic way. The transfer is achieved by means of radiation pulses coupling two atomic states which are object to different trapping conditions. A particular realization is proposed, where one state has zero magnetic moment and is confined by a dipole trap, whereas the other state with non-vanishing magnetic moment is confined by a steep microtrap potential. We show that in this setup a predetermined number of atoms can be transferred from a reservoir, a Bose-Einstein condensate, into the collective quantum state of the steep trap with high efficiency in the parameter regime of present experiments.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0412181,
title = {Extracting Atoms on Demand with Lasers},
author = {Bernd Mohring and Marc Bienert and Florian Haug and Giovanna Morigi and Wolfgang P. Schleich and Mark G. Raizen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0412181},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures