2007/10/01 by A. E. Afanasiev, P. N. Melentiev, Pavel N. Melentiev +1
Physics and Astronomy · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Chemistry · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
paper · doi:10.1134/s0021364007150052
A method of the quantum adsorption of atoms on a surface is proposed and experimentally implemented. The loading of atoms into a surface potential well (adsorption) occurs due to the loss of kinetic energy in the process of the inelastic collision of two laser-excited atoms. This scheme is implemented for Rb atoms adsorbed on the surface of a YAG crystal. The possibility of producing microstructures of arbitrary shape that consist of atoms localized on the dielectric surface is also demonstrated.