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View SchemaCounting Cold Collisions
| Authors | B. Ueberholz, S. Kuhr, D. Frese, D. Meschede, V. Gomer |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9910120 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9910120 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0953-4075/33/4/105 |
| Journal | J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 33, L135 (2000). |
Abstract
We have experimentally explored a novel possibility to study exoergic cold atomic collisions. Trapping of small countable atom numbers in a shallow magneto-optical trap and monitoring of their temporal dynamics allows us to directly observe isolated two-body atomic collisions and provides detailed information on loss statistics. A substantial fraction of such cold collisional events has been found to result in the loss of one atom only. We have also observed for the first time a strong optical suppression of ground-state hyperfine-changing collisions in the trap by its repump laser field.
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