Guided Atom Laser

A guided atom laser: atoms held within a Bose-Einstein condensate in a trap can be released horizontally on a quasi-continuous basis and can travel down a guide without loss of atoms or energy. The lower figure reveals the course of the atom beam.

Reported by: Guerin et al., in Physical Review Letters, 17 November 2006

Associated Physics News Update 806, item 1

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