Proposed magneto-electrostatic ring trap for neutral atoms
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v3 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We propose a novel trap for confining cold neutral atoms in a microscopic ring using a magneto-electrostatic potential. The trapping potential is derived from a combination of a repulsive magnetic field from a hard drive atom mirror and the attractive potential produced by a charged disk patterned on the hard drive surface. We calculate a trap frequency of [29.7, 42.6, 62.8] kHz and a depth of [16.1, 21.8, 21.8] MHz for [133Cs, 87Rb, 40K], and discuss a simple loading scheme and a method for fabrication. This device provides a one-dimensional potential in a ring geometry that may be of interest to the study of trapped quantum degenerate one-dimensional gases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0402037,
title = {Proposed magneto-electrostatic ring trap for neutral atoms},
author = {Asa Hopkins and Benjamin Lev and Hideo Mabuchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0402037},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; revised, including new calculations and further discussion