PMID: 15245224Jul 13, 2004Paper

Forces between a single atom and its distant mirror image

Physical Review Letters
Pavel BushevRainer Blatt

Abstract

An excited-state atom whose emitted light is backreflected by a distant mirror can experience trapping forces, because the presence of the mirror modifies both the electromagnetic vacuum field and the atom's own radiation reaction field. We demonstrate this mechanical action using a single trapped barium ion. We observe the trapping conditions to be notably altered when the distant mirror is translated across an optical wavelength. The well-localized barium ion enables the spatial dependence of the forces to be measured explicitly. The experiment has implications for quantum information processing and may be regarded as the most elementary optical tweezers.

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Feb 21, 2006·Physical Review Letters·Pavel BushevPeter Zoller
May 16, 2007·Physical Review Letters·François DubinRainer Blatt
Jun 13, 2009·Physical Review Letters·S GerberR Blatt
Feb 2, 2013·Physical Review Letters·Rasmus B LinnetMichael Drewsen
Aug 1, 2015·Physical Review Letters·M DonaireA Lambrecht
Jan 24, 2015·Physical Review Letters·Hassan Safari, Mohammad Reza Karimpour
Nov 22, 2014·Physical Review Letters·Z MeirR Ozeri
Oct 26, 2005·Physical Review Letters·Stefano Zippilli, Giovanna Morigi
Sep 26, 2012·Physical Review Letters·Cecilia Cormick, Giovanna Morigi

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