Abstract
By charging a thin wire we realize a pure attractive potential of variable strength for cold neutral atoms. Scattering experiments are performed where the charged wire is placed inside a confined gas of cold lithium atoms. We observe the “falling” of atoms into the singularity which so far has been only theoretically discussed in textbooks.
- Received 27 April 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.737
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