Phys. Rev. A 67, 033403 (2003) [7 pages]Single atoms in a standing-wave dipole trapSee Also: Erratum Received 12 November 2002; published 19 March 2003 We trap a single cesium atom in a standing-wave optical dipole trap. Special experimental procedures, designed to work with single atoms, are used to measure the oscillation frequency and the atomic energy distribution in the dipole trap. These methods rely on unambiguously detecting presence or loss of the atom using its resonance fluorescence in the magneto-optical trap. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.033403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.67.033403
PACS:
32.80.Lg, 32.80.Pj, 42.50.Vk
See AlsoErratum: Wolfgang Alt, Dominik Schrader, Stefan Kuhr, Martin Müller, Victor Gomer, and Dieter Meschede, Erratum: Single atoms in a standing-wave dipole trap [Phys. Rev. A 67, 033403 (2003)], Phys. Rev. A 71, 019905 (2005). |
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