Microtraps and Atom Chips: Toolboxes for Cold Atom Physics
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Magnetic microtraps and Atom Chips are safe, small-scale, reliable and flexible tools to prepare ultra-cold and degenerate atom clouds as sources for various atom-optical experiments. We present an overview of the possibilities of the devices and indicate how a microtrap can be used to prepare and launch a Bose-Einstein condensate for use in an atom clock or an interferometer.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302059,
title = {Microtraps and Atom Chips: Toolboxes for Cold Atom Physics},
author = {L. Feenstra and L. M. Andersson and J. Schmiedmayer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302059},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 10 figures, To appear in: HYPER symposium 1; Fundamental Physics and Applications of Cold Atoms in Space. European Space Agency Special Publications SP-491 (2003)