Bose-Einstein Condensation in a simple Microtrap
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
A Bose-Einstein condensate is created in a simple and robust miniature Ioffe-Pritchard trap, the so-called Z trap. This trap follows from the mere combination of a Z-shaped current carrying wire and a homogeneous bias field. The experimental procedure allows condensation of typically 3x10^5 Rb-87 atoms in the |F=2, m_F=2> state close to any mirroring surface, irrespective of its structure, thus it is ideally suited as a source for cold atom physics near surfaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210488,
title = {Bose-Einstein Condensation in a simple Microtrap},
author = {S. Schneider and A. Kasper and Ch. vom Hagen and M. Bartenstein and B. Engeser and T. Schumm and I. Bar-Joseph and R. Folman and L. Feenstra and J. Schmiedmayer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210488},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages / 4 figures, RevTeX4, Submitted to PRA-Rapid Communications