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View SchemaMagnetic Trapping of Metastable Calcium Atoms
| Authors | Dirk P. Hansen, Janis R. Mohr, Andreas Hemmerich |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0210119 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0210119 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.021401 |
Abstract
Metastable calcium atoms, produced in a magneto-optic trap (MOT) operating within the singlet system, are continuously loaded into a magnetic trap formed by the magnetic quadrupole field of the MOT. At MOT temperatures of 3 mK and 240 ms loading time we observe 1.1 x 10^8 magnetically trapped 3P2 atoms at densities of 2.4 x 10^8 cm^-3 and temperatures of 0.61 mK. In a modified scheme we first load a MOT for metastable atoms at a temperature of 0.18 mK and subsequently release these atoms into the magnetic trap. In this case 240 ms of loading yields 2.4 x 10^8 trapped 3P2 atoms at a peak density of 8.7 x 10^10 cm^-3 and a temperature of 0.13 mK. The temperature decrease observed in the magnetic trap for both loading schemes can be explained only in part by trap size effects.
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"abstract": "Metastable calcium atoms, produced in a magneto-optic trap (MOT) operating\nwithin the singlet system, are continuously loaded into a magnetic trap formed\nby the magnetic quadrupole field of the MOT. At MOT temperatures of 3 mK and\n240 ms loading time we observe 1.1 x 10^8 magnetically trapped 3P2 atoms at\ndensities of 2.4 x 10^8 cm^-3 and temperatures of 0.61 mK. In a modified scheme\nwe first load a MOT for metastable atoms at a temperature of 0.18 mK and\nsubsequently release these atoms into the magnetic trap. In this case 240 ms of\nloading yields 2.4 x 10^8 trapped 3P2 atoms at a peak density of 8.7 x 10^10\ncm^-3 and a temperature of 0.13 mK. The temperature decrease observed in the\nmagnetic trap for both loading schemes can be explained only in part by trap\nsize effects.",
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.67.021401",
"title": "Magnetic Trapping of Metastable Calcium Atoms",
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