Microfabricated magnetic waveguides for neutral atoms

We describe how tightly confining magnetic waveguides for atoms can be crea ted with microfabricated or nanofabricated wires. Rubidium atoms guided in the devices we have fabricated would have a transverse mode energy spacing of 50 mu K. We discuss the creation of a single-mode waveguide for atom int erferometry whose depth is comparable to magneto-optical trap (MOT) tempera tures. We also discuss the application of microfabricated waveguides to low -dimensional systems of quantum degenerate gases, and show that confinement can be strong enough to observe fermionization in a strongly interacting b osonic ensemble.