PHYS4060 - Online material 2006

Last updated: Monday 11th September 2006.

Lecturers


Papers for atom optics assignment

Assessment criteria

Laser Deceleration of an Atomic Beam
William D. Phillips and Harold Metcalf
Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 596–599 (1982)


Diffraction of atoms by light: The near-resonant Kapitza-Dirac effect
Phillip L. Gould, George A. Ruff, and David E. Pritchard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 827–830 (1986)


Observation of Atoms Laser Cooled below the Doppler Limit
Paul D. Lett, Richard N. Watts, Christoph I. Westbrook, and William D. Phillips, Phillip L. Gould, Harold J. Metcalf
Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 169–172 (1988)


rf spectroscopy in an atomic fountain
Mark A. Kasevich, Erling Riis, Steven Chu and Ralph G. DeVoe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 612–615 (1989)


Normal-incidence reflection of slow atoms from an optical evanescent wave
Mark A. Kasevich, David S. Weiss, and Steven Chu
Optics Letters 15, 607 (1990)


Atomic interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions
Mark Kasevich and Steven Chu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 181–184 (1991)


Realization of a Magnetic Mirror for Cold Atoms
T. M. Roach, H. Abele, M. G. Boshier, H. L. Grossman, K. P. Zetie, and E. A. Hinds
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 629–632 (1995)


Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor

M. H. Anderson, J. R. Ensher, M. R. Matthews, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell
Science 269, 198 (1995)


Observation of interference between two Bose condensates.
M.R. Andrews, C.G. Townsend, H.-J. Miesner, D.S. Durfee, D.M. Kurn, and W. Ketterle
Science 275, 637-641 (1997).


Measurement of the spatial coherence of a trapped Bose gas at the phase transition
I. Bloch, T. W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Nature 403, 166-170 (2000)


Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for ultracold quantum gases
Schellekens M., Hoppeler R., Perrin A., Gomes J. V., Boiron D., Aspect A., Westbrook C. I.
Science 310, 648 (2005)


Correlations and Counting Statistics of an Atom Laser,
Anton Öttl, Stephan Ritter, Michael Köhl, and Tilman Esslinger,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090404 (2005)