Continuous loading of a magnetic trap
摘要
We have realized a scheme for continuous loading of a magnetic trap (MT). ^{52}Cr atoms are continuously captured and cooled in a magneto-optical trap (MOT). Optical pumping to a metastable state decouples atoms from the cooling light. Due to their high magnetic moment (6 Bohr magnetons), low-field seeking metastable atoms are trapped in the magnetic quadrupole field provided by the MOT. Limited by inelastic collisions between atoms in the MOT and in the MT, we load 10^8 metastable atoms at a rate of 10^8 atoms/s below 100 microkelvin into the MT. After loading we can perform optical repumping to realize a MT of ground state chromium atoms.
引用
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0011113,
title = {Continuous loading of a magnetic trap},
author = {J. Stuhler and P. O. Schmidt and S. Hensler and J. Werner and J. Mlynek and T. Pfau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0011113},
year = {2009}
}
备注
4 pages, 4 figures, version 2, modified references, included additional detailed information, minor changes in figure 3 and in text