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A method of the quantum adsorption of atoms on a surface is proposed and experimentally implemented. The loading of atoms into a surface potential well (adsorption) occurs due to the loss of kinetic energy in the process of the inelastic collision of two laser-excited atoms. This scheme is implemented for Rb atoms adsorbed on the surface of a YAG crystal. The possibility of producing microstructures of arbitrary shape that consist of atoms localized on the dielectric surface is also demonstrated.
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Original Russian Text © A.E. Afanasiev, P.N. Melentiev, V.I. Balykin, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 3, pp. 198–203.
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Afanasiev, A.E., Melentiev, P.N. & Balykin, V.I. Laser-induced quantum adsorption of atoms on a surface. Jetp Lett. 86, 172–177 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364007150052
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