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Chinese Physics Letters

A Novel Controllable Beam Splitter for Guided Atoms

Liu Nan-Chun, Gao Wei-Jian, Yin Jian-Ping

Published Jul 30, 2003• 2 citations
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Abstract

We propose a novel atomic beamsplitter for guided atoms composed of a U-shaped current carrying conductor and an additional bias magnetic field, and study the dynamic process of atomic beam splitting in the beamsplitter by Monte Carlo simulations. Our study shows that the splitting ratio of the beamsplitter can be continuously adjusted from 0 to 1 by changing the additional bias field. In addition, the transverse temperature of guided atoms at the outlets of the beamsplitter are also estimated and explained qualitatively.

DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/20/8/304

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