Optically trapped atom interferometry using the clock transition of large Rb-87 Bose-Einstein condensates

P. A. Altin, G. McDonald, D. Döring +7

We present a Ramsey-type atom interferometer operating with an optically trapped sample of 10^6 Bose-condensed Rb-87 atoms. The optical trap allows us to couple the |F =1, mF =0>\r…