Optimized evaporative cooling using a dimple potential: An efficient route to Bose-Einstein condensation

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3187-3195

  Ma, Zhao Yuan ^a   Foot, Christopher J ^a   Cornish, Simon L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRAPS; EVAPORATION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; OPTIMIZATION; RUBIDIUM;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION (BEC); DIMPLE POTENTIAL; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; RETHERMALIZATION;

COOLING;

EID: 4043108455     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/37/15/013     Document Type: Article

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