Atom counting in ultra-cold gases using photoionisation and ion detection
Other Condensed Matter
2016-08-16 v1
Abstract
We analyse photoionisation and ion detection as a means of accurately counting ultra-cold atoms. We show that it is possible to count clouds containing many thousands of atoms with accuracies better than with current technology. This allows the direct probing of sub-Poissonian number statistics of atomic samples. The scheme can also be used for efficient single atom detection with high spatio-temporal resolution. All aspects of a realistic detection scheme are considered, and we discuss experimental situations in which such a scheme could be implemented.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0607170,
title = {Atom counting in ultra-cold gases using photoionisation and ion detection},
author = {T. Campey and C. J. Vale and M. J. Davis and S. Kraft and C. Zimmermann and J. Fortágh and N. R. Heckenberg and H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0607170},
year = {2016}
}
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10 pages, 6 figures