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Chin. Phys. B, 2016, Vol. 25(8): 080311    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/8/080311
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Demonstration of a cold atom beam splitter on atom chip

Xiaojun Jiang(蒋小军)1,2, Xiaolin Li(李晓林)1, Haichao Zhang(张海潮)1, Yuzhu Wang(王育竹)1
1 Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics and Center for Cold Atom Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China;
2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract  

We report an experimental demonstration of a new scheme to split cold atoms on an atom chip. The atom chip consists of a U-wire and a Z-wire. The cold atom cloud is initially loaded and prepared in the Z-trap, which is split into two separate parts by switching on the current of the U-wire. The two separate atom clouds have a distance more than one millimeter apart from each other and show almost symmetrical profiles, corresponding to about a 50/50 splitting ratio.

Keywords:  beam splitter      cold atoms      atom chip  
Received:  14 January 2016      Revised:  06 April 2016      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  03.75.Be (Atom and neutron optics)  
  03.65.Nk (Scattering theory)  
  37.10.Gh (Atom traps and guides)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the State Key Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2011CB921504) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91536107).

Corresponding Authors:  Haichao Zhang, Yuzhu Wang     E-mail:  zhanghc@siom.ac.cn;yzwang@mail.shcnc.ac.cn

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Xiaojun Jiang(蒋小军), Xiaolin Li(李晓林), Haichao Zhang(张海潮), Yuzhu Wang(王育竹) Demonstration of a cold atom beam splitter on atom chip 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 080311

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