{"id":273,"date":"2022-12-13T23:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/pjessen\/?p=273"},"modified":"2022-12-14T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:11:22","slug":"02_two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/2022\/12\/13\/02_two\/","title":{"rendered":"02_two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong>Two-dimensional motion of cold atoms in a near-resonant annular laser beam: artificial two-dimensional molecules<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>E. M. Wright, P. S. Jessen, G. J. Lapeyere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Optical Science Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721<\/strong><br \/><strong>Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 8572<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\">We develop the theory of the two-dimensional motion of cold atoms in a near-resonant annular laser beam. For a red-detuned field the laser beam provides an annular light shift potential and the atomic motion divides into vibrational and rotational normal motions analogous to a two-dimensional molecule. In the ground vibrational state we obtain an atom optics realization of a two-dimensional rotator. We illustrate the novel physics which may be explored with this system by showing that gravity acts analogously to a static electric field applied to a charged rotator.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/publications\/\">Back<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/116\/2022\/12\/02_Two.pdf\">Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-dimensional motion of cold atoms in a near-resonant annular laser beam: artificial two-dimensional molecules<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/pjessen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}