Cold Atoms on Atom Chips
Prof. Dr. Edward Hinds (Imperial College, London)

Atom chips are microfabricated devices that control electric, magnetic and optical fields in order to miniaturise atomic physics experiments down to the micrometer scale. They make it possible to prepare and manipulate ultracold clouds of many atoms, either thermal or quantum degenerate. In addition they can prepare arrays of few-atom clouds or single atoms. On the one hand, these chips can be used for fundamental studies of quantum systems, on the other, they have promise for a variety of sensing applications. I will discuss progress in my laboratory in developing the capabilities of atom chips for interferometry and quantum information processing.