Large atom number Bose-Einstein condensate machines
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Streed, EW
Chikkatur, AP
Gustavson, TL
Boyd, M
Torii, Y
Schneble, D
Campbell, GK
Pritchard, DE
Ketterle, W
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2006
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We describe experimental setups for producing large Bose-Einstein condensates of $^{23}$Na and $^{87}$Rb. In both, a high flux thermal atomic beam is decelerated by a Zeeman slower and is captured and cooled in a magneto-optical trap. The atoms are then transfered into a cloverleaf style Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap and cooled to quantum degeneracy with radio frequency induced forced evaporation. Typical condensates contain 20 million atoms. The design includes a second vacuum chamber into which ultracold atoms can be transported with an optical tweezers. This allows the flexibility to rapidly prepare and perform a wide ...
View more >We describe experimental setups for producing large Bose-Einstein condensates of $^{23}$Na and $^{87}$Rb. In both, a high flux thermal atomic beam is decelerated by a Zeeman slower and is captured and cooled in a magneto-optical trap. The atoms are then transfered into a cloverleaf style Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap and cooled to quantum degeneracy with radio frequency induced forced evaporation. Typical condensates contain 20 million atoms. The design includes a second vacuum chamber into which ultracold atoms can be transported with an optical tweezers. This allows the flexibility to rapidly prepare and perform a wide variety of experiments.
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View more >We describe experimental setups for producing large Bose-Einstein condensates of $^{23}$Na and $^{87}$Rb. In both, a high flux thermal atomic beam is decelerated by a Zeeman slower and is captured and cooled in a magneto-optical trap. The atoms are then transfered into a cloverleaf style Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap and cooled to quantum degeneracy with radio frequency induced forced evaporation. Typical condensates contain 20 million atoms. The design includes a second vacuum chamber into which ultracold atoms can be transported with an optical tweezers. This allows the flexibility to rapidly prepare and perform a wide variety of experiments.
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Journal Title
Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume
77
Issue
2
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© 2006 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 77(2), pp. 023106-1-023106-13 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2163977.
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