Breakdown of atomic hyperfine coupling in a deep optical-dipole trap

2015/08/31 by Andreas Neuzner, Matthias Körber, Stephan Dürr +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Coupling (piping) #Dipole #Hyperfine coupling #Hyperfine structure #Materials science #Physics #Quantum #Quantum information processing #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Trap (plumbing) #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.92.053842

published as Phys. Rev. A 92, 053842 (2015)

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Abstract

A breakdown of the hyperfine coupling in a deep optical-dipole trap is observed for single ⁸⁷Rb atoms, an effect which has implications for future experiments with atomic clocks, in quantum information processing, and quantum many-body physics.

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