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arXiv:1301.4559

Single atom trapping and control inside a nanosize photonic crystal cavity

Kuznetsova, Elena, Johannes Feist, Qimin Quan, Jeff D. Thompson, Tobias Tiecke, Susanne F. Yelin, Mikhail D. Lukin

Published Jan 19, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We analyze a possibility to trap, control and load a single atom inside a nanosize cavity formed in a photonic crystal. We consider a 1D nanobeam crystal having two nearly degenerate localized modes with mode maxima at the central air gap, forming a cavity with a mode volume
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1301.4559

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