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Submicrometer position control of single trapped neutral atoms
Physical Review Letters 95, (2005)
We optically detect the positions of single neutral cesium atoms stored in a standing wave dipole trap with a subwavelength resolution …
I. Dotsenko, W. Alt, M. Khudaverdyan, S. Kuhr, D. Meschede, Y. Miroshnychenko, D. Schrader, A. Rauschenbeutel
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Adiabatic quantum state manipulation of single trapped atoms
Physical Review A 71, (2005)
We use microwave-induced adiabatic passages for selective spin flips within a string of optically trapped individual neutral Cs atoms. …
M. Khudaverdyan, W. Alt, I. Dotsenko, L. Forster, S. Kuhr, D. Meschede, Y. Miroshnychenko, D. Schrader, A. Rauschenbeutel
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Application of electro-optically generated light fields for Raman spectroscopy of trapped cesium atoms
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 78, 711–717 (2004)
We present an apparatus for generating a multi-frequency laser field to coherently couple the F=3 and F=4 ground state of trapped …
I. Dotsenko, W. Alt, S. Kuhr, D. Schrader, M. Muller, Y. Miroshnychenko, V. Gomer, A. Rauschenbeutel, D. Meschede
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Continued imaging of the transport of a single neutral atom
Optics Express 11, 3498–3502 (2003)
We have continuously imaged the controlled motion of a single atom as well as of a small number of distinguishable atoms with …
Y. Miroshnychenko, D. Schrader, S. Kuhr, W. Alt, I. Dotsenko, M. Khudaverdyan, A. Rauschenbeutel, D. Meschede
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Coherence properties and quantum state transportation in an optical conveyor belt
Physical Review Letters 91, (2003)
We have prepared and detected quantum coherences of trapped cesium atoms with long dephasing times. Controlled transport by an …
S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, I. Dotsenko, Y. Miroshnychenko, W. Rosenfeld, M. Khudaverdyan, V. Gomer, A. Rauschenbeutel, D. Meschede
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Single atoms in a standing-wave dipole trap
Physical Review A 67, (2003)
We trap a single cesium atom in a standing-wave optical dipole trap. Special experimental procedures, designed to work with single …
W. Alt, D. Schrader, S. Kuhr, M. Muller, V. Gomer, D. Meschede
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Cold collisions in a high-gradient magneto-optical trap
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 35, 4899–4914 (2002)
We present a detailed analysis of the cold collision measurements performed in a high-gradient magneto-optical trap with a few trapped …
B. Ueberholz, S. Kuhr, D. Frese, V. Gomer, D. Meschede
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Capture and release of a conditional state of a cavity QED system by quantum feedback
Physical Review Letters 89, (2002)
Detection of a single photon escaping an optical cavity QED system prepares a nonclassical state of the electromagnetic field. The …
W. P. Smith, J. E. Reiner, L. A. Orozco, S. Kuhr, H. M. Wiseman
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An optical conveyor belt for single neutral atoms
Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 73, 819–824 (2001)
Using optical dipole forces we have realized controlled transport of a single or any desired small number of neutral atoms over a …
D. Schrader, S. Kuhr, W. Alt, M. Muller, V. Gomer, D. Meschede
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Deterministic delivery of a single atom
Science 293, 278–280 (2001)
We report the realization of a deterministic source of single atoms. A standing-wave dipole trap is Loaded with one or any desired …
S. Kuhr, W. Alt, D. Schrader, M. Muller, V. Gomer, D. Meschede
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