Design of magnetic traps for neutral atoms with vortices in type-II superconducting microstructures

• Main Authors: Zhang, B., Fermani, R., Müller, T., Lim, M. J., Dumke, Rainer Helmut
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101840; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18816
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We design magnetic traps for atoms based on the average magnetic field of vortices induced in a type-II superconducting thin film. This magnetic field is the critical ingredient of the demonstrated vortex-based atom traps, which operate without transport current. We use Bean’s critical-state method...