2017/04/06 by R. Saint, Saint, R., W. D. Evans +17 · 2 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1704.01813
openalex publication_date 2017/04/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent advances in the preparation, control and measurement of atomic gases have led to new insights into the quantum world and unprecedented metrological sensitivities, e.g. in measuring gravitational forces and magnetic fields. The full potential of applying such capabilities to areas as diverse as biomedical imaging, non-invasive underground mapping, and GPS-free navigation can only be realised with the scalable production of efficient, robust and portable devices. Here we introduce additive manufacturing as a production technique of quantum device components with unrivalled design freedom, providing a step change in efficiency, compactness and facilitating systems integration. As a demonstrator we present a compact ultracold atom source using less than ten milliwatts power to produce large samples of cold rubidium gases in an ultrahigh vacuum environment. This disruptive technology opens the door to drastically improved integrated structures, which will further reduce power consumption, size and assembly complexity in scalable series manufacture of bespoke quantum devices.