  A Bose-Einstein condensate is created in a simple and robust miniature
Ioffe-Pritchard trap, the so-called Z trap. This trap follows from the mere
combination of a Z-shaped current carrying wire and a homogeneous bias field.
The experimental procedure allows condensation of typically 3x10^5 Rb-87 atoms
in the |F=2, m_F=2> state close to any mirroring surface, irrespective of its
structure, thus it is ideally suited as a source for cold atom physics near
surfaces.
