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Intermediate-range Casimir-Polder interaction probed by high-order slow atom diffraction
C Garcion, N Fabre, H Bricha +4
At nanometer separation, the dominant interaction between an atom and a material surface is the fluctuation-induced Casimir-Polder potential. We demonstrate that slow atoms crossin…
Anisotropic Atom-Surface Interactions in the Casimir-Polder Regime
T. Taillandier-Loize, J. Baudon, G. Dutier +3
The distance-dependence of the anisotropic atom-wall interaction is studied. The central result is the 1/z^6 quadrupolar anisotropy decay in the retarded Casimir-Polder regime. Ana…
Atom reflection echoes and surface matter waves in atom meta-optics
V. Bocvarski, J. Baudon, M. Hamamda +5
Evanescent matter-waves produced by an atom wave packet incident onto a repulsive barrier edge can be back-refracted and reconstructed by the application of negative-index "comovin…
Negative-index media for matter-wave optics
J. Baudon, M. Hamamda, J. Grucker +4
We consider the extension of optical meta-materials to matter waves. We show that the generic property of pulsed comoving magnetic fields allows us to fashion the wave-number depen…
Efficient magneto-optical trapping of a metastable helium gas
F. Pereira Dos Santos, F. Perales, J. Leonard +6
This article presents a new experiment aiming at BEC of metastable helium atoms. It describes the design of a high flux discharge source of atoms and a robust laser system using a…
Penning collisions of laser-cooled metastable helium atoms
F. Pereira Dos Santos, F. Perales, J. Leonard +6
We present experimental results on the two-body loss rates in a magneto-optical trap of metastable helium atoms. Absolute rates are measured in a systematic way for several laser d…