CLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009
This work investigates different coupling mechanisms between ultracold atoms and mechanical oscil... more This work investigates different coupling mechanisms between ultracold atoms and mechanical oscillators. In a first experiment, atom-surface force is used to couple the vibrations of a mechanical cantilever to the motion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a magnetic microtrap on a chip. The atoms are trapped at sub-micrometer distance from the cantilever surface. Coupling is used to read out the
CLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2009
This work investigates different coupling mechanisms between ultracold atoms and mechanical oscil... more This work investigates different coupling mechanisms between ultracold atoms and mechanical oscillators. In a first experiment, atom-surface force is used to couple the vibrations of a mechanical cantilever to the motion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a magnetic microtrap on a chip. The atoms are trapped at sub-micrometer distance from the cantilever surface. Coupling is used to read out the
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