Cooling Bose-Einstein condensates below 500 picokelvin

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5639, 2003, Pages 1513-1515

  Leanhardt, A E ^a   Pasquini, T A ^a   Saba, M ^a   Schirotzek, A ^a   Shin, Y ^a   Kielpinski, D ^a   Pritchard, D E ^a   Ketterte, W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COOLING; EVAPORATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

MAGNETIC FORCES;

GAS CONDENSATES;

CONDENSATE; GAS;

ARTICLE; COOLING; DECOMPRESSION; DENSITY; GRAVITY; MAGNETISM; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VAPOR;

EID: 0141818363     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1088827     Document Type: Article

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29. This work was funded by the Army Research Office, NSF, Office of Naval Research, and NASA. We thank C. V. Nielsen for experimental assistance and J. K. Thompson for critical comments on the manuscript. M.S. acknowledges additional support from the Swiss National Science Foundation.