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Phys. Rev. A 52, 3997–4003 (1995)

Schrödinger modal structure of cubical, pyramidal, and conical, evanescent light-wave gravitational atom traps

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Jonathan P. Dowling
Weapons Sciences Directorate, AMSMI-RD-WS-ST, Research, Development, and Engineering Center, U.S. Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898-5248

Julio Gea-Banacloche
Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701

Received 4 August 1995; published in the issue dated November 1995

We investigate the modal structure of Schrödinger’s equation in several evanescent light-wave gravitational traps. Three configurations are proposed that optically confine an atom inside an atom-mirror cavity: a cubical, a pyramidal, and a conical gravitational trap.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.52.3997
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.52.3997
PACS:
03.65.Ge, 32.80.Pj, 33.80.Ps, 42.50.Vk