Optical tweezers use the forces exerted by a strongly focused beam of light to trap and move
objects ranging in size from tens of nanometres to tens of micrometres. Since their …

Trapping and manipulating ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases in magnetic
micropotentials is reviewed. Starting with a comprehensive description of the basic concepts …

Acoustic tweezers use sound radiation forces to manipulate matter without contact. They
provide unique characteristics compared with the more established optical tweezers, such …

A trapped-atom interferometer was demonstrated using gaseous Bose-Einstein
condensates coherently split by deforming an optical single-well potential into a double-well …

Scientific and technological progress in the last decades has proven that miniaturization and
integration are important steps towards the robust application of fundamental physics, be it …

We investigate the interaction of a laser-cooled trapped ion (Ba+ or Rb+) with an optically
confined Rb 87 Bose-Einstein condensate. The system features interesting dynamics of the …

Vortices were imprinted in a Bose-Einstein condensate using topological phases. Sodium
condensates held in a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap were transformed from a nonrotating …

The early experiments on Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute atomic gases accomplished
three long-standing goals. First, cooling of neutral atoms into their motional ground state …

We use the dynamical invariants associated with the Hamiltonian of an atom in a one
dimensional moving trap to inverse engineer the trap motion and perform fast atomic …

Second sound attenuation, a distinctive dissipative hydrodynamic phenomenon in a
superfluid, is crucial for understanding superfluidity and elucidating critical phenomena …