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{temperature, thermal, energy}
{wave, scattering, interference}

Realization of a superconducting atom chip

Thomas Nirrengarten, Angie Qarry, Cédric Roux, Andreas Emmert, Gilles Nogues, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond, Serge Haroche

abstract: We have trapped rubidium atoms in the magnetic field produced by a superconducting atom chip operated at liquid Helium temperatures. Up to $8.2\cdot 10^5$ atoms are held in a Ioffe-Pritchard trap at a distance of 440 $\mu$m from the chip surface, with a temperature of 40 $\mu$K. The trap lifetime reaches 115 s at low atomic densities. These results open the way to the exploration of atom--surface interactions and coherent atomic transport in a superconducting environment, whose properties are radically different from normal metals at room temperature.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0610019
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.200405
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0610019
journal_ref:
Physical review letters 97 (17/11/2006) 200405
created:
2006-10-03
updated:
2006-10-09

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