Non-destructive study of non-equilibrium states of cold, trapped atoms
Atomic Physics
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
Highly sensitive, non-destructive, real-time spectroscopic determination of the 2D kinetic momentum distribution of a cold-atom sample is performed with the three-beam measurement of the recoil-induced resonances. The measurements performed with an operating magneto-optical trap reveal slow velocity drifts within a stationary atomic cloud and strong anisotropy and asymmetry of the non-Maxwellian momentum distribution. The developed method can be easily extended to 3D.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0506220,
title = {Non-destructive study of non-equilibrium states of cold, trapped atoms},
author = {Maria Brzozowska and Tomasz M. Brzozowski and Jerzy Zachorowski and Wojciech Gawlik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0506220},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL