Ultra-High Efficiency Magnetic Transport of 87Rb Atoms in a Single Chamber Bose–Einstein Condensation Apparatus
GAO Kui-Yi1,4, LUO Xin-Yu1,2,4, JIA Feng-Dong1,3, YU Cheng-Hui2, ZHANG Feng1,4, YIN Ji-Ping1,4, XU Lin2,4, YOU Li2,4, WANG Ru-Quan1,4**
1Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 2State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 3School of Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 4Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084
Abstract:We report the ultra-high efficiency transport of cold 87Rb atoms using a moving magnetic quadrupole potential generated by three overlapping pairs of fixed coils. The transfer efficiency is better than 97%, which is the highest ever reported to our knowledge. The temperature increase due to heating is less than 10 μK when the initial cloud temperature is 110 μK. Our setup is similar to the magnetic transferring belt design [Phys. Rev. A 63 (2001) 031401(R)], although it is simpler because the push coil is not required. We use it to transport atoms away from a magneto-optical trap to very close to the wall of the glass cell, facilitating future experiments employing three-dimensional optical lattices, high resolution in-situ imaging, and magnetic Feshbach resonances.
. [J]. 中国物理快报, 2014, 31(06): 63701-063701.
GAO Kui-Yi, LUO Xin-Yu, JIA Feng-Dong, YU Cheng-Hui, ZHANG Feng, YIN Ji-Ping, XU Lin, YOU Li, WANG Ru-Quan. Ultra-High Efficiency Magnetic Transport of 87Rb Atoms in a Single Chamber Bose–Einstein Condensation Apparatus. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2014, 31(06): 63701-063701.