Confinement effects in a guided-wave atom interferometer with millimeter-scale arm separation
Confinement effects in a guided-wave atom interferometer with millimeter-scale arm separation
Guided-wave atom interferometers measure interference effects using atoms held in a confining potential. In one common implementation, the confinement is primarily two dimensional, and the atoms move along the nearly free dimension after being manipulated by an off-resonant standing wave laser beam. In this configuration, residual confinement along the nominally …