2 papers
quant-ph2005
An Atom Trap Relying on Optical Pumping
P. Bouyer, P. Lemonde, M. Ben Dahan +3
We have investigated a new radiation pressure trap which relies on optical pumping and does not require any magnetic field. It employs six circularly polarized divergent beams and…
physics.atom-ph2005
An optical clock with neutral atoms confined in a shallow trap
Pierre Lemonde, Peter Wolf
We study the trap depth requirement for the realization of an optical clock using atoms confined in a lattice. We show that site-to-site tunnelling leads to a residual sensitivity…