Microscopic atom optics: from wires to an atom chip

By R. Folman, P. Krüger, Jörg Schmiedmayer, J. Denschlag, C. Henkel. 2008

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We give a comprehensive overview of the development of micro traps, from the first experiments on guiding atoms using current carrying wires in the early 1990's to the creation of a BEC on an atom chip.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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A coherent all-electrical interface between polar molecules and mesoscopic superconducting resonators (2006, background): “Finally, polar molecules also combine the large-scale preparation available for neutral atom”
Fermi gases in one dimension: From Bethe ansatz to experiments (2013, methodology): “The basic property, practical design and experimental procedure of atom chips have been reviewed in the literature (Folman et al., 2002; Fortágh and Zimmermann, 2007; Reichel, 2002).”
Magnetic microtraps for ultracold atoms (2007, background): “In the last years several reviews on magnetic microtraps have been published focusing on various aspects Hinds and Hughes, 1999; Folman et al., 2002; Reichel, 2002 .”
Rapidly rotating atomic gases (2008, background): “Much tighter traps can be formed by using atom chip traps formed on surface microstructures[235], allowing transverse trapping frequencies on the order of 100kHz.”
One dimensional bosons: From condensed matter systems to ultracold gases (2011, background): “When the magnetic field is slowly varying in space, the spin follows adiabatically the direction of the magnetic field resulting in a potential proportional to ||B||(r) (Folman et al., 2002).”