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Preparation of one Rb and one Cs atom in a single optical tweezer
R V Brooks, S Spence, A Guttridge +5
We report the preparation of exactly one Rb atom and one Cs atom in the same optical tweezer as the essential first step towards the construction of a tweezer array…
Splitting and recombination of bright-solitary-matter waves
Oliver J. Wales, Ana Rakonjac, Thomas P. Billam +3
Solitons are long-lived wavepackets that propagate without dispersion and exist in a wide range of one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear systems. A Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a q…
Spin-orbit coupled interferometry with ring-trapped Bose--Einstein condensates
John L. Helm, Thomas P. Billam, Ana Rakonjac +2
We propose a method of atom-interferometry using a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a time-varying magnetic field acting as a coherent beam-splitter. Our protocol creates…
Measuring the disorder of vortex lattices in a Bose-Einstein condensate
A. Rakonjac, A. L. Marchant, T. P. Billam +4
We report observations of the formation and subsequent decay of a vortex lattice in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a hybrid optical-magnetic trap. Vortices are induced by r…
Quantum reflection of bright solitary matter-waves from a narrow attractive potential
A. L. Marchant, T. P. Billam, M. M. H. Yu +6
We report the observation of quantum reflection from a narrow, attractive, potential using bright solitary matter-waves formed from a 85Rb Bose-Einstein condensate. We create narro…
Steerable optical tweezers for ultracold atom studies
Kris O. Roberts, Thomas McKellar, Julia Fekete +3
We report on the implementation of an optical tweezer system for controlled transport of ultracold atoms along a narrow, static confinement channel. The tweezer system is based on…