Atoms and wires: Toward atom chips

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1364-1376

  Bartenstein, Markus ^a,b   Cassettari, Donatella ^a   Calarco, Tommaso ^a,c   Chenet, Alexander ^a   Folman, Ron ^a   Brugger, Karolina ^a   Haase, Albrecht ^a,b   Hartungen, Eugen ^a   Hessmo, Björn ^a,d   Kasper, Alexander ^a   Krüger, Peter ^a,b   Maier, Thomas ^e   Payr, Fritz ^a   Schneider, Stephan ^a   Schmiedmayer, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Inst fur Festkorperelektronik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cold atoms; Manipulation; Miniaturisation; Trapping

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC WIRE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE MOUNT TECHNOLOGY; SURFACES;

ATOM CHIPS; ATOM OPTICS; COLD ATOMS; MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS; NANOFABRICATED WIRES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0034485207     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.892555     Document Type: Article

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