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Marriage of atoms and plasmons

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The interaction between atoms in a Bose–Einstein condensate and plasmon-enhanced fields is a step towards the goal of realizing hybrid atom–polariton systems for tasks in quantum information processing.

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Figure 1: Stehle et al. used a microstructured thin gold film on the surface of a prism (left) to diffract a cloud of Bose–Einstein condensate atoms.

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  1. James P. Shaffer is at the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Oklahoma, 440 W. Brooks St., Norman, Oklahoma 73072, USA,

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Shaffer, J. Marriage of atoms and plasmons. Nature Photon 5, 451–452 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.174

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