Atom Chip Portable Vacuum Cell

ColdQuanta's patented Atom Chip Portable Vacuum is a miniature vacuum cell that can produce cold and ultracold atoms on an “atom chip”*. This innovative device greatly simplifies the previously complex, bulky apparatus required in ultracold atom systems and has reduced their size and cost dramatically. Researchers and industries involved in cold atom technology can gain dramatic time efficiencies by using our atom chip miniature vacuum cell allowing design and development cycles to become much more rapid. This first product to be offered by ColdQuanta is to be shipped as a prototype in 2007.

By bringing this device to market, ColdQuanta is uniquely positioned to cultivate the nascent market in both basic research and applied arenas surrounding ultracold atoms. Ultracold atoms have acknowledged potential applications in improving the frequency standard and clocks, inertial navigation (i.e., gyroscopes and accelerometers), the mapping of the Earth's gravitational field, and in magnetic field sensing. More speculative but still promising are applications of ultracold matter in quantum computing and more recently, as powerful emulators of condensed matter systems intended to help understand, for example, high-temperature superconductors.

* Atom chip Bose-Einstein condensation in a portable vacuum cell
   Physical Review A 70, 53606 (2004)

Bose Einstein Condensate Systems

In addition to ColdQuanta's core initial technology of the small Atom Chip Vacuum Cell, the company will offer technology and accessories to produce the surrounding optical and electronic system to support the functionality of the vacuum cell.

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