Trapping atoms on a transparent permanent-magnet atom chip

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2006-05-05

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en

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4
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Volume 73, issue 5

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We describe experiments on the trapping of atoms in microscopic magneto-optical traps on an optically transparent permanent-magnet atom chip. The chip is made of magnetically hard ferrite-garnet material deposited on a dielectric substrate. The confining magnetic fields are produced by miniature magnetized patterns recorded in the film by magneto-optical techniques. We trap Rb atoms on these structures by applying three crossed pairs of counterpropagating laser beams in the conventional magneto-optical trapping geometry. We demonstrate the flexibility of the concept in creation and in situ modification of the trapping geometries through several experiments.

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Atom chip, permanent magnets, surface traps

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Shevchenko , A , Heiliö , M , Lindvall , T , Jaakkola , A , Tittonen , I , Kaivola , M & Pfau , T 2006 , ' Trapping atoms on a transparent permanent-magnet atom chip ' , Physical Review A , vol. 73 , no. 5 , 051401 , pp. 1-4 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.051401