C J Vale et al 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 2959 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/37/14/009
C J Vale, B Upcroft, M J Davis, N R Heckenberg and H Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Show affiliationsWe describe a novel method of fabricating atom chips that are well suited to the production and manipulation of atomic Bose–Einstein condensates. Our chip was created using a silver foil and simple micro-cutting techniques without the need for photolithography. It can sustain larger currents than conventional chips, and is compatible with the patterning of complex trapping potentials. A near pure Bose–Einstein condensate of 4 × 104 87Rb atoms has been created in a magnetic microtrap formed by currents through wires on the chip. We have observed the fragmentation of atom clouds in close proximity to the silver conductors. The fragmentation has different characteristic features to those seen with copper conductors.
03.75.Be Atom and neutron optics
42.50.St Nonclassical interferometry, subwavelength lithography
Issue 14 (28 July 2004)
Received 8 June 2004
Published 8 July 2004
C J Vale et al 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 2959
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