The recent progress in atomic manipulation

Lu Jun-Fa, Yin Jianping

The basic principle,experimental scheme and results of laser cooling,trapping manipulation and control of a single atom in a micro-cavity and their recent progress are reviewed in some detail,and the recent experimental progress of laser manipulation and control for a single atom and their applications in the studies of cavity quantum electrodynamics(QED),sub-Poissonian photon statistics,one-atom laser,quantum-state preparation,single photon source,and quantum information processing and so on are introduced.

John Maddox

R. Ohmukai

Recent progress in manipulating atoms with laser beams has made it possible to fabricate nanostructures using atom optics. This technique is called atom lithography and is expected to overcome the present technical limitations of conventional lithographic methods. This paper reviews the principles behind and some experimental results on atomic beam manipulation and its application for engineering high-performance atom lithography.

Jianling Yin, Yang You-yuan

The atom laser is compared with the photon laser. We also present the recent progress in the atom laser. The difference between the atom laser and the photon laser is used to realize the propagation and manipulation of the atom laser beam, such as the divergence, the reansverse mode of the atom laser beam, optics with the atom laser beam and the filement-ation in the atom-laser-beam propagation.