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Design, Fabrication and Characterization of nanoplasmonic lattice for trapping of ultracold atoms
Optics · Submitted 24 Oct 2018
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The authors' main claim This trap can be used for effective trapping and manipulation of isolated atoms and also for creating a lattice of neutral atoms having sub-optical wavelength lattice spacing.
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Ultracold atom-traps on a chip enhances the practical application of atom traps in quantum information processing, sensing, and metrology. Plasmon mediated near-field optical potentials are promising for trapping atoms. The combination of plasmonic nanostructures and ultracold atoms has the potential to create a two dimensional array of neutral atoms with lattice spacing smaller than that of lattices created from interfering light fields -- the optical lattices. We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a nano-scale array of near-field optical traps for neutral atoms using plasmonic nanostructures. The building block of the array is a metallic nano-disc fabricated on the surface of an ITO-coated glass substrate. We numerically simulate the electromagnetic field-distribution using Finite Difference Time Domain method around the nanodisc, and calculate the intensity, optical potential and the dipole force for $^{87}$Rb atoms. The optical near-field generated from the fabricated nanostructures is experimentally characterized by using Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy. We find that the optical potential and dipole force has all the desired characteristics to trap cold atoms when a blue-detuned light-field is used to excite the nanostructures. This trap can be used for effective trapping and manipulation of isolated atoms and also for creating a lattice of neutral atoms having sub-optical wavelength lattice spacing. Near-field measurements are affected by the influence of tip on the sub-wavelength structure. We present a deconvolution method to extract the actual near-field profile from the measured data.
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| s0 | Ultracold atom-traps on a chip enhances the practical application of atom traps in quantum information processing, sensing, and metrology. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Plasmon mediated near-field optical potentials are promising for trapping atoms. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.04 | hedged possibility 0.80 |
| s2 | The combination of plasmonic nanostructures and ultracold atoms has the potential to create a two dimensional array of neutral atoms with lattice spacing smaller than that of lattices created from interfering light fields -- the optical lattices. | background 0.96 | 0.07 | 0.11 | hedged possibility 0.99 |
| s3 | We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a nano-scale array of near-field optical traps for neutral atoms using plasmonic nanostructures. | contribution 1.00 | 0.96 | 0.19 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | The building block of the array is a metallic nano-disc fabricated on the surface of an ITO-coated glass substrate. | method 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | We numerically simulate the electromagnetic field-distribution using Finite Difference Time Domain method around the nanodisc, and calculate the intensity, optical potential and the dipole force for $^{87}$Rb atoms. | method 0.99 | 0.95 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s6 | The optical near-field generated from the fabricated nanostructures is experimentally characterized by using Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy. | method 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s7 | We find that the optical potential and dipole force has all the desired characteristics to trap cold atoms when a blue-detuned light-field is used to excite the nanostructures. | result 0.94 | 0.95 | 0.55 | asserted 1.00 |
| s8 | This trap can be used for effective trapping and manipulation of isolated atoms and also for creating a lattice of neutral atoms having sub-optical wavelength lattice spacing. | interpretation 0.93 | 0.41 | 0.67 | hedged possibility 0.53 |
| s9 | Near-field measurements are affected by the influence of tip on the sub-wavelength structure. | limitation 0.92 | 0.27 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s10 | We present a deconvolution method to extract the actual near-field profile from the measured data. | method 0.69 | 0.87 | 0.06 | asserted 0.99 |
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Ultracold atom-traps on a chip enhances the practical application of atom traps in quantum information processing, sensing, and metrology. Plasmon mediated near-field optical potentials are promising for trapping atoms. The combination of plasmonic nanostructures and ultracold atoms has the potential to create a two dimensional array of neutral atoms with lattice spacing smaller than that of lattices created from interfering light fields -- the optical lattices. We report the design, fabrication and characterization of a nano-scale array of near-field optical traps for neutral atoms using plasmonic nanostructures. The building block of the array is a metallic nano-disc fabricated on the surface of an ITO-coated glass substrate. We numerically simulate the electromagnetic field-distribution using Finite Difference Time Domain method around the nanodisc, and calculate the intensity, optical potential and the dipole force for $^{87}$Rb atoms. The optical near-field generated from the fabricated nanostructures is experimentally characterized by using Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy. We find that the optical potential and dipole force has all the desired characteristics to trap cold atoms when a blue-detuned light-field is used to excite the nanostructures. This trap can be used for effective trapping and manipulation of isolated atoms and also for creating a lattice of neutral atoms having sub-optical wavelength lattice spacing. Near-field measurements are affected by the influence of tip on the sub-wavelength structure. We present a deconvolution method to extract the actual near-field profile from the measured data.
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