Atomic physics Shaping atoms in optical lattices

Christopher Monroe
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Christopher Monroe: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6644, 719-720

Abstract: Carefully crossed laser beams can hold cool atoms in a lattice, sitting at the point of constructive interference between the beams, one wavelength apart. Because they are under such precise external control, these optical lattices allow some textbook solid-state physics phenomena to be observed cleanly. Now they are also being used to push at the apparent barriers of quantum mechanics -- to transiently squeeze atoms to a smaller size than the usual quantum limit, for example.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/41885

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