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Q: Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 48: Gruppenberichte Quantengase

Q 48.1: Group Report

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 14:00–14:30, HVI

Matter-wave interferometry on an atom chip using radio-frequency induced adiabatic potentials — •Sebastian Hofferberth1, Thorsten Schumm2, Igor Lesanovsky1, Peter Krüger3, L. Mauritz Andersson4, Stephan Wildermuth1, Bettina Fischer1, Jose Verdu1, and Jörg Schmiedmayer11Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg,D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany — 2Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, UMR 8105 du CNRS, F-91403 Orsay, France — 3Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Sup∖érieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, F-75005 Paris, France — 4Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology, The Royal Institute of Technology, SE-164 40, Kista, Sweden

We describe the implementation of Radio-frequency (RF) induced adiabatic potentials as a new tool for creating complex trapping potentials for neutral atoms on scales orders of magnitude smaller than the atom chip structures. Together with our nanofabricated atom chips with exceptionally small disorder potentials this allows the realization of a coherent atom chip beam splitter for trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. We study the coherent quantum evolution throughout the splitting process in detail. The enhanced flexibility of RF induced potentials allow the implementation of novel trapping configurations, such as ring and zylinder shaped 1d and 2d potnentials or a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Their realization, utilizing simple and highly integrated wire geometries and experimental implementations are presented.

[1] T. Schumm et al., Nature Physics 1, 57, (2005). [2] I. Lesanovsky et al., arXiv:quant-ph/0510076.

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