https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050184
Quantum wires and quantum dots for neutral atoms
Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck,
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Corresponding author: a joerg.schmiedmayer@mibk.ac.at
Received:
28
October
1997
Revised:
17
February
1998
Accepted:
17
July
1998
Published online: 15 October 1998
By placing changeable nanofabricated structures (wires, dots, etc.) on an atom mirror one can design guiding and trapping potentials for atoms. These potentials are similar to the electrostatic potentials which trap and guide electrons in semiconductor quantum devices like quantum wires and quantum dots. This technique will allow the fabrication of nanoscale atom optical devices.
PACS: 03.75.Be – Atom and neutron optics / 42.81.-i – Fiber optics / 42.82.-m – Integrated optics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1998
