Optical atomic clocks

AD Ludlow, MM Boyd, J Ye, E Peik, PO Schmidt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Optical atomic clocks represent the state of the art in the frontier of modern measurement
science. In this article a detailed review on the development of optical atomic clocks that are …

Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

O Morsch, M Oberthaler - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
Matter waves inside periodic potentials are well known from solid-state physics, where
electrons interacting with a crystal lattice are considered. Atomic Bose-Einstein condensates …

Cold bosonic atoms in optical lattices

D Jaksch, C Bruder, JI Cirac, CW Gardiner, P Zoller - Physical Review Letters, 1998 - APS
The dynamics of an ultracold dilute gas of bosonic atoms in an optical lattice can be
described by a Bose-Hubbard model where the system parameters are controlled by laser …

Optical dipole traps for neutral atoms

R Grimm, M Weidemüller, YB Ovchinnikov - Advances in atomic, molecular …, 2000 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses optical dipole traps for neutral atoms. Methods
for storage and trapping of charged and neutral particles have very often served as the …

Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates

W Ketterle, DS Durfee… - … -Einstein condensation in …, 1999 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEe) in dilute atomic gases [1-5] achieved
several long-standing goals. First, neutral atoms were cooled into the lowest energy state …

Macroscopic quantum interference from atomic tunnel arrays

BP Anderson, MA Kasevich - Science, 1998 - science.org
Interference of atomic de Broglie waves tunneling from a vertical array of macroscopically
populated traps has been observed. The traps were located in the antinodes of an optical …

Entanglement of atoms via cold controlled collisions

D Jaksch, HJ Briegel, JI Cirac, CW Gardiner, P Zoller - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled Collisions Page 1 VOLUME 82, NUMBER 9
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 1MARCH 1999 Entanglement of Atoms via Cold Controlled …

Fisher information and entanglement of non-Gaussian spin states

H Strobel, W Muessel, D Linnemann, T Zibold… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Entanglement is the key quantum resource for improving measurement sensitivity beyond
classical limits. However, the production of entanglement in mesoscopic atomic systems has …

Quantum logic gates in optical lattices

GK Brennen, CM Caves, PS Jessen, IH Deutsch - Physical Review Letters, 1999 - APS
We propose a new system for implementing quantum logic gates: neutral atoms trapped in a
very far-off-resonance optical lattice. Pairs of atoms are made to occupy the same well by …

All-optical formation of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate

MD Barrett, JA Sauer, MS Chapman - Physical review letters, 2001 - APS
We have created a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of 87 Rb atoms directly in an optical
trap. We employ a quasielectrostatic dipole force trap formed by two crossed CO 2 laser …