Beam Splitter for Guided Atoms

Donatella Cassettari, Björn Hessmo, Ron Folman, Thomas Maier, Jörg Schmiedmayer
2000 Physical Review Letters  
We have designed and experimentally studied a simple beam splitter for atoms guided on an Atom Chip, using a current carrying Y-shaped wire and a bias magnetic field. This beam splitter and other similar designs can be used to build atom optical elements on the mesoscopic scale, and integrate them in matterwave quantum circuits.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.85.5483 pmid:11136027 fatcat:wta2helrp5by7mk2echvmqbuc4