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Bose-Einstein condensate in gases of rare atomic species

Atomic Physics 2021-10-01 v1 Quantum Gases

Abstract

We report on the successful extension of production of Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) to rare species. Despite its low natural abundance of 0.13%, 168^{168}Yb is directly evaporatively cooled down to BEC. Our successful demonstration encourages attempts to obtain quantum gases of radioactive atoms, which extends the possibility of quantum many-body physics and precision measurement. Moreover, a stable binary mixture of 168^{168}Yb BEC and 174^{174}Yb BEC is successfully formed.

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@article{arxiv.1107.0107,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein condensate in gases of rare atomic species},
  author = {Seiji Sugawa and Rekishu Yamazaki and Shintaro Taie and Yoshiro Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0107},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Phys. Rev. A