Dispersion forces between ultracold atoms and a carbon nanotube

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 515-519

  Schneeweiss, P ^a   Gierling, M ^a   Visanescu, G ^a   Kern, D P ^a   Judd, T E ^a   Gunther A ^a   Fortagh J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOTUBES; QUANTUM OPTICS; RUBIDIUM; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; YARN;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; CASIMIR INTERACTIONS; CASIMIR-POLDER INTERACTION; LONG RANGE INTERACTIONS; NANOMECHANICAL DEVICE; NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; ULTRACOLD RUBIDIUM ATOMS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; NANOMATERIAL; RUBIDIUM;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANOANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID STATE;

EID: 84864867442     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2012.93     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Parsegian, V. A. Van der Waals forces: A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006).
2. Bordag, M., Klimchitskaya, G. L. & Mohideen, U. Advances in the Casimir Effect (Oxford Univ. Press, 2009).
3. Scheel, S. & Buhmann, S. Y. Macroscopic quantum electrodynamics- concepts and applications. Acta Phys. Slovaca 58, 675-809 (2008).
4. Bormuth, V., Varga, V., Howard, J. & Schäffer, E. Protein friction limits diffusive and directed movements of kinesin motors on microtubules. Science 325, 870-873 (2009).
5. Rance, G. A., Marsh, D. H., Bourne, S. J., Reade, T. J. & Khlobystov, A. N. Van der Waals interactions between nanotubes and nanoparticles for controlled assembly of composite nanostructures. ACS Nano 4, 4920-4928 (2010).
6. Milton, K. The Casimir force: Feeling the heat. Nature Phys. 7, 190-191 (2011).
7. Klimchitskaya, G. L., Mohideen, U. & Mostepanenko, V. M. The Casimir force between real materials: Experiment and theory. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1827-1885 (2009).
8. Bruch, L.W. Evaluation of the van derWaals force for atomic force microscopy. Phys. Rev. B 72, 033410 (2005).
9. Petrov, P. G. et al. Trapping cold atoms using surface-grown carbon nanotubes. Phys. Rev. A 79, 043403 (2009).
10. Goodsell, A., Ristroph, T., Golovchenko, J. A. & Hau, L. V. Field ionization of cold atoms near the wall of a single carbon nanotube. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 133002 (2010).
11. Kálmán, O., Kiss, T., Fortágh, J. & Domokos, P. Quantum galvanometer by interfacing a vibrating nanowire and cold atoms. Nano Lett. 12, 435-439 (2012).
12. Lin, Y., Teper, I., Chin, C. & Vuletić, V. Impact of the Casimir-Polder potential and Johnson noise on Bose-Einstein condensate stability near surfaces. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 050404 (2004).
13. Obrecht, J. M. et al. Measurement of the temperature dependence of the Casimir-Polder force. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 063201 (2007).
14. Hunger, D. et al. Resonant coupling of a Bose-Einstein condensate to a micromechanical oscillator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 143002 (2010).
15. Bender, H., Courteille, P. W., Marzok, C., Zimmermann, C. & Slama, S. Direct measurement of intermediate-range Casimir-Polder potentials. Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 083201 (2010).
16. Cronin, A. D., Schmiedmayer, J. & Pritchard, D. E. Optics and interferometry with atoms and molecules. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1051-1129 (2009).
17. Birkl, G. & Fortágh J. Micro traps for quantum information processing and precision force sensing. Laser Photon. Rev. 1, 12-23 (2007).
18. Wallquist, M., Hammerer, K., Rabl, P., Lukin, M. & Zoller, P. Hybrid quantum devices and quantum engineering. Phys. Scripta T137, 014001 (2009).
19. Löffler, R. et al. Optimization of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition parameters for the growth of individual vertical carbon nanotubes as field emitters. Carbon 49, 4197-4203 (2011).
20. Gierling, M. et al. Cold-atom scanning probe microscopy. Nature Nanotech. 6, 446-451 (2011).
21. Ketterle, W., Durfee, D. S. & Stamper-Kurn, D. M. in Proceedings of the International School of Physics-Enrico Fermi (eds Inguscio, M., Stringari, S. & Wieman, C. E.) 67-176 (IOS Press, 1999).
22. Barash, Y. S. & Kyasov, A. A. Interaction potential for two filaments and for an atom interacting with a filament. Sov. Phys. JETP 68, 39-45 (1989).
23. Boustimi, M., Baudon, J., Candori, P. & Robert, J. van der Waals interaction between an atom and a metallic nanowire. Phys. Rev. B 65, 155402 (2002).
24. Blagov, E. V., Klimchitskaya, G. L. & Mostepanenko, V. M. Van der Waals interaction between microparticle and uniaxial crystal with application to hydrogen atoms and multiwall carbon nanotubes. Phys. Rev. B 71, 235401 (2005).
25. Fermani, R., Scheel, S. & Knight, P. L. Trapping cold atoms near carbon nanotubes: Thermal spin flips and Casimir-Polder potential. Phys. Rev. A 75, 062905 (2007).
26. Eberlein, C. & Zietal, R. Retarded Casimir-Polder force on an atom near reflecting microstructures. Phys. Rev. A 80, 012504 (2009).
27. Landau, L. D. & Lifshitz, E. M. Mechanics 3rd edn (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001).
28. Fink, M. et al. s-wave scattering of a polarizable atom by an absorbing nanowire. Phys. Rev. A 81, 062714 (2010).
29. Judd, T. E. et al. Zone-plate focusing of Bose-Einstein condensates for atom optics and erasable high-speed lithography of quantum electronic components. New J. Phys. 12, 063033 (2010).
30. Judd, T. E., Scott, R. G. & Fromhold, T. M. Atom-chip diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates: The role of interatomic interactions. Phys. Rev. A 78, 053623 (2008).
31. Hammerer, K., Aspelmeyer, M., Polzik, E. S. & Zoller, P. Establishing Einstein-Poldosky-Rosen channels between nanomechanics and atomic ensembles. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 020501 (2009).