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Lev Ph.D.Thesis

Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Atom Optics (defended 9/15/05)

Full thesis (11pt, margins for single-side format): LevThesis.pdf (17.1 MB)

Front matter: Title page through Abstract and Table of Contents LevTitleAbsContents.pdf (168 KB)
Preface: LevPreface.pdf (172 KB)
Chapter 1 Introduction: LevCh1.pdf (128 KB)
Chapter 2 Atom Chips: LevCh2.pdf (1.7 MB)
Chapter 3 Experimental Details: LevCh3.pdf (2 MB)
Chapter 4 Fabrication of Micro-Magnetic Traps for Cold Neutral Atoms: LevCh4.pdf (3.3 MB)
Chapter 5 Cold Collisions and Cesium Microtrap Losses: LevCh5.pdf (564 KB, I've had some trouble downloading this chapter in Safari---saving to disk works fine though)
Chapter 6 The Atom-Cavity Chip: Combining microwire traps with photonic
bandgap cavities and microdisks: LevCh6.pdf (2.7 MB)
Chapter 7 Fiber-Gap Fabry-Perot Cavity: The first atom-cavity chip: LevCh7.pdf (2.7 MB)
Chapter 8 Atom Mirror Etched from a Common Hard Drive: LevCh8.pdf (1.2 MB)
Chapter 9 A 1-D Magnetoelectrostatic Ring Trap for Neutral Atoms: LevCh9.pdf (532 KB)
Chapter 10 Splitting a BEC in a Magnetic Double-Well Potential: Atom interferometry
and Josephson effects on an atom chip: LevCh10.pdf (1.5 MB)
Appendix A Magnetic Fields, Gradients, and Trap Minima of U- and Z-Traps: LevApA.pdf (176 KB)
Appendix B Matlab Code: LevApB.pdf (168 KB)
Bibliography: LevBib.pdf (148 KB)