Evaporative cooling of an atomic beam
Abstract
We present a theoretical analysis of the evaporative cooling of an atomic beam propagating in a magnetic guide. Cooling is provided by transverse evaporation. The atomic dynamics inside the guide is analyzed by solving the Boltzmann equation with two different approaches: an approximate analytical ansatz and a Monte-Carlo simulation. Within their domain of validity, these two methods are found to be in very good agreement with each other. They allow us to determine how the phase-space density and the flux of the beam vary along its direction of propagation. We find a significant increase for the phase-space density along the guide for realistic experimental parameters. By extrapolation, we estimate the length of the beam needed to reach quantum degeneracy.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9909378,
title = {Evaporative cooling of an atomic beam},
author = {E. Mandonnet and A. Minguzi and R. Dum and I. Carusotto and Y. Castin and J. Dalibard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9909378},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 7 figures, to be published in EPJ D, revised version