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View SchemaUltracold atomic collisions in tight harmonic traps: Perturbation theory, ionization losses and application to metastable helium atoms
| Authors | T J Beams, G Peach, I B Whittingham |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0408125 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0408125 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0953-4075/37/22/014 |
Abstract
Collisions between tightly confined atoms can lead to ionization and hence to loss of atoms from the trap. We develop second-order perturbation theory for a tensorial perturbation of a spherically symmetric system and the theory is then applied to processes mediated by the spin-dipole interaction. Redistribution and loss mechanisms are studied for the case of spin-polarized metastable helium atoms and results obtained for the five lowest s states in the trap and trapping frequencies ranging from 1 kHz to 10 MHz.
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