Description:  This schematic shows how the beam splitter is constructed: the device shunts atoms from the large, U-shaped wire to the pair of smaller U-shaped wires, and finally across the smallest, Y-shaped wire, which splits the beam of atoms in a controlled way.
Source:  Innsbruck University
Story:  Switch channels atom beams
TRN January 31, 2001
TRN Categories:  Quantum Computing
Form:  Still

 
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