Kuhr, Stefan: A controlled quantum system of individual neutral atoms. - Bonn, 2003. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-01913,
author = {{Stefan Kuhr}},
title = {A controlled quantum system of individual neutral atoms},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2003,
note = {This thesis presents novel techniques to realize controllable quantum systems of neutral atoms. Besides the preparation of the exact number of atoms, we manipulate all physical degrees of freedom of the trapped particles.
The first part (Chapters 2, 3) reports on a deterministic source of single atoms, which overcomes the limitations imposed by statistical arrival in conventional sources. Single cold cesium atoms prepared in a magneto-optical trap are transferred into a standing wave optical dipole trap, made of two counter-propagating red-detuned Nd:YAG laser beams. Mutual detuning of the laser beam frequencies moves the standing wave pattern, allowing us to accelerate and stop an atom at preselected points along the standing wave. This "optical conveyor belt" can transport one atom over a maximum distance of 10~mm.
The second part (Chapters 4, 5) reports on the investigation of the coherence times of the Cs hyperfine ground states using microwave transitions. Using Ramsey spectroscopy techniques we measured coherence times of up to 100 ms. The limiting dephasing effects are experimentally identified and are of technical rather than fundamental nature. We present an analytical model of the reversible and irreversible dephasing mechanisms. Finally, we prove that controlled transport by the optical conveyor belt over macroscopic distances preserves the atomic coherence with slight reduction of coherence time.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/1903}
}

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