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Production of rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate in an optically-plugged magnetic quadrupole trap

Quantum Gases 2017-08-08 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We have experimentally produced rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate in an optically-plugged magnetic quadrupole (OPQ) trap. A far blue-detuned focused laser beam with a wavelength of 532 nm is plugged in the center of the magnetic quadrupole trap to increase the number of trapped atoms and suppress the heating. A radio frequency (RF) evaporative cooling in the magneto-optical hybrid trap is applied to decrease the atom temperature into degeneracy. The atom number of the condensate is 1.2(0.4)×1051.2(0.4)\times10^5 and the temperature is below 100 nK. We have also studied characteristic behaviors of the condensate, such as phase space density (PSD), condensate fraction and anisotropic expansion.

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@article{arxiv.1605.07695,
  title  = {Production of rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate in an optically-plugged magnetic quadrupole trap},
  author = {Dong-Fang Zhang and Tian-You Gao and Ling-Ran Kong and Kai Li and Kai-Jun Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.07695},
  year   = {2017}
}

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will be published on Chin. Phys. Lett. 2016