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View SchemaFeasibility of detecting single atoms using photonic bandgap cavities
| Authors | Benjamin Lev, Kartik Srinivasan, Paul Barclay, Oskar Painter, Hideo Mabuchi |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0402093 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402093 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0957-4484/15/10/010 |
| Journal | Nanotechnology 15, S556 (2004) |
Abstract
We propose an atom-cavity chip that combines laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms with magnetic microtraps and waveguides to deliver a cold atom to the mode of a fiber taper coupled photonic bandgap (PBG) cavity. The feasibility of this device for detecting single atoms is analyzed using both a semi-classical treatment and an unconditional master equation approach. Single-atom detection seems achievable in an initial experiment involving the non-deterministic delivery of weakly trapped atoms into the mode of the PBG cavity.
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