Advances in atomtronics

TL;DR

Atomtronics explores creating electronic-like devices using ultracold atoms, leveraging their coherence for potential quantum computing and advanced quantum devices, with recent progress in theory and experiments.

Contribution

This paper reviews fundamental concepts and reports recent theoretical and experimental advances in developing atomtronic devices and their potential applications.

Findings

Progress in externally-driven atomtronic devices

Development of closed-loop atomtronic systems

Potential applications in quantum computing and spintronics

Abstract

Atomtronics is a relatively new subfield of atomic physics that aims to realize the device behavior of electronic components in ultracold atom-optical systems. The fact that these systems are coherent makes them particularly interesting since, in addition to current, one can impart quantum states onto the current carriers themselves or perhaps perform quantum computational operations on them. After reviewing the fundamental ideas of this subfield, we report on the theoretical and experimental progress made towards developing externally-driven and closed loop devices. The functionality and potential applications for these atom analogs to electronic and spintronic systems is also discussed.