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View SchemaThermalization of magnetically trapped metastable helium
| Authors | A. Browaeys, A. Robert, O. Sirjean, J. Poupard, S. Nowak, D. Boiron, C. I. Westbrook, A. Aspect |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0102068 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102068 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.034703 |
| Journal | Physical Review A, 64, 034703 |
Abstract
We have observed thermalization by elastic collisions of magnetically trapped metastable helium atoms. Our method directly samples the reconstruction of a thermal energy distribution after the application of an RF knife. The relaxation time of our sample towards equilibrium gives an elastic collision rate constant close to the unitarity limit.
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