Abstract

Recently, there has been much interest in the physics of neutral atoms tightly confined in one or more dimensions.^1-2,3 Simultaneously, there has been continued interest in waveguides for atoms.⁴ in this work, we present a linear magnetic waveguide for atoms capable of tight transverse confinement, such that transverse energy level spacings are on the order of the temperature of convenient atomic sources.

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