Ratchet for cold rubidium atoms: The asymmetric optical lattice

被引：141

作者：

Mennerat-Robilliard, C ^{[1
]}

Lucas, D ^{[1
]}

Guibal, S ^{[1
]}

Tabosa, J ^{[1
]}

Jurczak, C ^{[1
]}

Courtois, JY ^{[1
]}

Grynberg, G ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Ecole Normale Super, Dept Phys, Lab Kastler Brossel, F-75231 Paris 05, France

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 1999年 / 82卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.851

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

It was suggested recently that particles evolving in a bipotential that is macroscopically flat but locally asymmetric can be set into directed motion [J. Prost et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2652 (1994)]. We show evidence of this effect using cold rubidium atoms in a grey optical lattice.

引用

页码：851 / 854

页数：4

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