Trapping and manipulating ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases in magnetic
micropotentials is reviewed. Starting with a comprehensive description of the basic concepts …

Scientific and technological progress in the last decades has proven that miniaturization and
integration are important steps towards the robust application of fundamental physics, be it …

We suggest using a two-color evanescent light field around a subwavelength-diameter fiber
to trap and guide atoms. The optical fiber carries a red-detuned light and a blue-detuned …

Near field generated by plasmonic structures has recently been proposed to trap small
objects. We report the first integration of plasmonic trapping with microfluidics for lab–on–a …

We present and analyse a novel concept for blue-detuned evanescent field surface traps for
cold neutral atoms based on two-mode interference in ultrathin optical fibres. When two or …

Manipulating the motion of nanoparticles in liquid media using the near field of integrated
optical elements is associated with enhanced viscous friction and an increased probability of …

A dense gas of cesium atoms at the crossover to two dimensions is prepared in a highly
anisotropic surface trap that is realized with two evanescent light waves. Temperatures as …

Integrated optical structures offer the intriguing potential of compact, reproducible
waveguide arrays, rings, Y junctions, etc., that could be used to design evanescent field …

Integrated photonic circuits based on suspended photonic rib waveguides, which can be
used for coherent trapping, guiding, and splitting of ultra-cold neutral atoms in two-color …

Trapped atoms on photonic structures inspire many novel quantum devices for quantum
information processing and quantum sensing. Here, we demonstrate a hybrid photonic-atom …