Professor Victor I. Balykin and Associates

1. Laser fluorescence detection of single atom demonstrated.

"Laser detection of single atom fluorescence", V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, V.I. Mishin and V.A. Semchishen, , JETP Lett., 26, 492-495, 1977.
"Laser detection of single atoms", V.I. Balykin, G.I. Bekov, V.I. Mishin, and V.S.Letokhov, Sov. Phys. Usp., 23, 651-678, 1980.

2. First demonstration of laser cooling of neutral atoms.

"Radiative slowing and reduction of the energy spread of a beam of sodium atoms to 1.5 K in an oppositely directed laser beam", S.V. Andreev, V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, and V.G. Minogin, , JETP Lett., 34, 442-445, 1981.
"Cooling atoms by means of laser radiation pressure", V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, V.G. Minogin, Sov. Phys. Usp., 28, 803-826, 1985.

3. First demonstration of laser collimation of neutral atoms.

"Radiative collimation of an atomic beam by two-dimensional cooling by laser beam", V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, and A.I. Sidorov, JETP Lett., 40, 1026-1029, 1984.

4. Deep focusing of atomic beam introduced and developed.

"The possibility of deep laser focusing of an atom beam into the Angstrom region", V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, Opt. Commun., 64, 151-156, 1987.
"Focusing of an atomic beam and imaging of atomic sources by means of a laser lens based on resonance-radiation pressure", V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, Yu.B. Ovchinnikov, and A.I. Sidorov, Journ. Mod. Opt., 35, 17-34, 1988.
"Imaging and focusing of an atomic-beam with a large period standing ight-wave", Sleator T., Pfau T., Balykin V., et al. Appl. Phys., B54, 375, 1992.
"Laser near-field lens for atoms", Balykin V.I., Klimov V.V., Letokhov V.S., J Phys II 4, 1981, 1994.

5. First demonstration and development of atom mirror reflection.

"Reflection of an atomic beams from a gradient of an optical field", V.I. Balykin, Yu.B. Ovchinnikov, and A.I. Sidorov, JETP Lett., 45, 353-356, 1987.
"Quantum state-selective reflection of atoms by laser light", V.I. Balykin, V.S. Letokhov, Yu. B. Ovchinnikov, and A.I. Sidorov, Phys. Rev. Lett., 60, 2137-2140, 1988.
"Reflection of metastable argon atoms from an evanescent-wave", Seifert, W, Adams, C.S., Balykin V.I., et al. Phys Rev, A49, 3814, 1994.
"Inelastic reflection of atoms from an evanescent light wave", Yu. B. Ovchinnikov, D. V. Laryushin, V.I. Balykin,V. S. Letokhov, Laser Physics, 6, 264-267, 1995.
"A bright coherent source of de Broglie wave", V.I. Balykin, D. V. Laryushin, M. V. Subbotin, V. S. Letokhov, Laser Physics, 7, 358-360, 1997.

6. Concept of cavity for neutral atoms introduced.

"Atomic cavity with light induced mirrors", V.I. Balykin and V.S. Letokhov, Appl. Phys. B48, 517-523, 1989.
"Laser control of the motion of neutral atoms and optical atomic traps", V.I.Balykin, V.S.Letokhov, V.G.Minogin, Physica Scripta, V.22, T.2, 119-127, 1988.

7. Development of concept of atom optics with laser light.

"Laser optics of neutral atomic beam", V.I. Balykin and V.S. Letokhov, Physics Today, 4, 23-28 (1989)
"Optics neutral atomic beam with laser beams", V.I. Balykin, and V.S. Letokhov , Sov.Phys. Usp., 33, 79-85, 1990.
"Atom optics with laser light", V.I. Balykin and V.S. Letokhov , Laser Science and Technology, Gordon & Breach, Vol. 18, 1995.

8. First demonstration of the optical Stern-Gerlach effect.

"Experimental demonstration of the optical Stern-Gerlach effect", Sleator T. Pfau T., Balykin V., J. Mlynek, Phys. Rev. Lett., 68, 1996-1999, 1992.

9. First demonstration of laser cooling of relativistic ion beam.

"First laser cooling of relativistic ions in storage ring", S. Schroder, R. Klein, N. Boos, M. Gerhard, R. Grieser, G. Huber, A. Karafillidis, M. Krieg, T, Kuhl, R. Nemann, V.Balykin, et all., , Phys. Rev. Letts., 64, 2901-2904, 1990.
"Laser spectroscopy with a cooler ring at the esr (gsi) and the tsr (mpi Heidelberg)", Kuhl T., Borneis S., Greten G., et al. Hyperfine Interact 74, 277-285, 1992.

10. Concept of information cooling of neutral atoms introduced.

"On the possibility of "informational" cooling of neutral atoms”, V. I. Balykin, V. S. Letokhov, JETP Lett. 72, 11-13, 2000.
"Information cooling of neutral atoms", V. I. Balykin, V. S. Letokhov, Phys. Rev., A64, 063410, 2001.

11. First demonstration of atomic matter wave scanner similar to electron beam scanner.

"Atomic-matter-wave scanner", H. Oberst, Sh. Kasashima, V. I. Balykin, and F. Shimizu, Phys. Rev. A68, 013606, 2003.
"A controllable diffraction grating for matter waves", H.Oberst, Sh.Kasashima, F.Shimizu and V.I.Balykin, Proc. of the XVI Intern. Conf. Laser Spectroscopy, 253-255, 2003

12. Verification of dynamics of atoms around nano-fiber.

"Light-induced force and torque on an atom outside a nanofiber", Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta, Phys. Rev. A74, 033412, 2006.
"Angular momentum of light in an optical nanofiber", Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta, Phys. Rev. A73, 053823 (2006).
"Spontaneous emission of a cesium atom near a nanofiber: Efficient coupling of light to guided modes", Fam Le Kien, S. Dutta Gupta, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta, Phys. Rev. A72, 032509, 2005.

13. Atom trapping with optical nanofiber introduced and developed.

"Atom trap and waveguide using a two-color evanescent light field around a subwavelength-diameter optical fiber", Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta , Phys.Rev. A70, 063403 (2004).
"State-insensitive trapping and guiding of cesium atoms using a two-color evanescent field around a subwavelength-diameter fiber", Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin and K. Hakuta, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn, 74, 910, 2005.
"Atom Nano-Optics and Nano-lithography", Proc. the XVIII Intern. Conf. on Laser Spectroscopy, Telluride, Colorado, USA, 195-204, 2007, World Scientific, 2008
"Optical nanofiber as an efficient tool for manipulating and probing atomic fluorescence", K. P. Nayak, P. N. Melentiev, M. Morinaga, Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta, Optics Express, 15, 5431-5438, 2007

14. Atom trapping in van der Waals potential by laser induced quantum adsorption demonstrated.

"Laser-Induced Quantum Adsorption of Atoms on a Surface", A. E. Afanasiev, P. N. Melentiev, and V. I. Balykin, JETP Letters, 86, 172-177, 2007.

15. Atom trapping in nano size region and on femtosecond time scale introduced.

"An atomic trap based on evanescent light wave", Yu. B. Ovchinnikov, S.V. Shulga, and V.I. Balykin, J.Phys. B: At.Mol.Opt.Phys., 24, 3173-3178, 1991.
"Atom Nanooptics Based on Photon Dots and Photon Holes", V. I. Balykin, V. V. Klimov, and V. S. Letokhov, JETP Lett., 78, 8, 2003.
"Motion of an Atom under the Effect of Femtosecond Laser Pulses: From Chaos to Spatial Localization", V. I. Balykin , JETP Letters, 81, 209-213, 2005.

16. Development of atom nanooptics.

"Atom Nanooptics Based on Photon Dots and Photon Holes", V. I. Balykin, V. V. Klimov, and V. S. Letokhov, JETP Lett., 78, 8, 2003.
"Atomic Nanoprobe with a Single Photon", V. I. Balykin, JETP Lett., 78, 408, 2003.
"Atom trap and waveguide using a two-color evanescent light field around a subwavelength-diameter optical fiber", Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta, Phys.Rev. A70, 063403 (2004).
"Atom Nano-Optics", V. I. Balykin, V.V. Klimov and V. S. Letokhov, Optics & Photonics News, 16, 33-36, 2005.
"Angular momentum of light in an optical nanofiber", Fam Le Kien, V. I. Balykin, and K. Hakuta, Phys. Rev. A73, 053823 (2006).
"Atom Nanooptics", V.I. Balykin, V.V. Klimov, V.S.Letokhov. In "Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology" 2006.

17. Realization of Feynman′s scalable nano manufacturing system.

"Nanolithography based on an atom pinhole camer", P N Melentiev, A V Zablotskiy, D.A. Lapshin, E P Sheshin, A S Baturin and V I Balykin, Nanotechnology, 20, 235301 (2009).

18. Development of atom nanolithography.

"Atom pinhole camera with nanometer resolution", V. I. Balykin, P. A. Borisov, V. S. Letokhov, P. N. Melent′ev, et. all., JETP Lett., 84, 466-469, 2006.
"Parallel fabrication of nanostructures via atom projection", V.I. Balykin, Physics – Uspekhi, 50, (7) 744 (2007).
"Nanolithography based on an atom pinhole camera for fabrication of metamaterials", P.N.Melentiev, A.V.Zablotskiy,V.I. Balykin, A.A.Kuzin, D.A.Lapshin, A.S.Baturin, Metamaterials, 3, 157-164, 2009.
"Atomic diffraction microscope of the de Broglie waves", V.I. Balykin, Laser Physics, 20, 47-51 (2010)