阳极结构调整对稀土电解槽的影响

以目前使用的6 k A稀土电解槽为研究对象,采用实验验证与数值模拟计算相结合的方式对采用不同阳极结构的稀土电解槽进行了全面分析讨论。使用斜角切割阳极片可以在维持电解槽槽电压、氧化物利用率、产品合格率等技术指标不变的情况下,克服传统正交切割阳极片在使用过程中随着阳极片反应消耗造成电流效率降低及缩短石墨坩埚使用寿命的现象。其可作为稀土电解槽工艺改造的一个发展方向。     

激光锁频实验研究

随着激光技术的发展,激光的频率稳定性越来越好,实际应用对激光频率稳定性的要求也逐渐提高.目前简单的被动稳频技术已不能满足实际应用需求,而主动锁频技术备受关注并得到高速发展.更高的频率稳定度意味着需要更精确的调控,激光锁频技术也成为现代量子技术的重要组成部分.本文介绍了几种常用的激光稳频技术,展现了激光锁频技术的重要发展,例如小型化和自动化、超稳腔锁频和传输腔锁频.     

基于光晶格的超冷原子量子模拟

文章从超冷原子研究的视角出发,回顾了用"从下到上"的方案来开展量子模拟研究的历史。超冷原子作为宏观量子态,各个自由度精确可控,是量子模拟的绝佳平台。光晶格将冷原子物理和凝聚态物理融合起来,是其中最重要的技术之一,为超冷原子量子模拟提供了一个扎实的落脚点。近年来,关于拓扑量子模拟的研究日益兴起,成为超冷原子量子模拟新的重要方向。文章介绍这方面近期的一些工作进展。最后分享作者对超冷原子量子模拟的一些思考。     

Parametric resonance and cooling on an atom chip

This paper observes the parametric excitation on atom chip by measuring the trap loss when applying a parametric modulation. By modulating the current in chip wires, it modulates not only the trap frequency but also the trap position. It shows that the strongest resonance occurs when the modulation frequency equals to the trap frequency. The resonance amplitude increases exponentially with modulation depth. Because the Z-trap is an anharmonic trap, there exists energy selective excitation which would cause parametric cooling. We confirm this effect by observing the temperature of atom cloud dropping.     

Guiding Neutral Atoms with Two Current-Carrying Wires and a Vertical Bias Field on the Atom Chip

We demonstrate the guiding of neutral atoms with two parallel microfabricated current-carrying wires on the atom chip and a vertical magnetic bias field. The atoms are guided along a magnetic field minimum parallel to the current-carrying wires and confined in the other two directions. We describe in detail how the precooled atoms are efficiently loaded into the two-wire guide. We present a detailed experimental study of the motional properties of the atoms in the guide and the relationship between the location of the guide and the vertical bias field. This two-wire guide with vertical bias field can be used to realize large area atom interferometer.     

Reduction of interference fringes in absorption imaging of cold atom cloud using eigenface method

Eigenface method used in face recognition is introduced to reduce the pattern of interference fringes appearing in the absorption image of cold rubidium atom cloud trapped by an atom chip. The standard method for processing the absorption image is proposed, and the origin of the interference fringes is analyzed. Compared with the standard processing method which uses only one reference image, we take advantage of fifty reference images and reconstruct a new reference image which is more similar to the absorption image than all of the fifty original reference images. Then obvious reduction of interference fringes can be obtained.     

利用原子芯片上Z形磁阱囚禁中性87Rb原子

利用解析和数值方法计算了Z形磁阱的囚禁势,发现当囚禁中心和芯片表面距离较远时(该距离和Z形线中部导线的一半长度相差不超过一个量级),势阱的深度不能近似表示成偏置磁场By对应的能量,而要减去囚禁中心的势能高度;而增加By进行磁阱压缩到一定值时,势阱深度反而会下降.此外介绍了原子芯片的制作方法,以及利用原子芯片上Z形磁阱囚禁中性87Rb原子的实验装置和实验过程.最终有2×106个87Rb原子被转移到Z形磁阱中.     

极性分子的激光冷却及囚禁技术

分子由于其不同于原子的特殊性质,在原子、分子和光物理研究中有其独特的地位.冷分子研究已经开展了二三十年,取得了很多重大的进展.但是以斯塔克减速器为代表的传统冷却方案遇到瓶颈,很难进一步提高分子的相空间密度.将原子中成熟的激光冷却技术拓展到极性分子中是本领域近年来的重大突破,使得冷却和囚禁分子的范围得以大大扩展,分子的相空间密度也得以提高.本文对国内外激光冷却极性分子的最新成果进行综述,并以BaF分子为例介绍激光冷却极性分子的相关理论和技术,包括分子能级结构分析及精密光谱测量,采用缓冲气体冷却进行态制备和预冷却,以及通过冷分子束研究激光与BaF分子间的相互作用.这些为后续开展激光冷却与囚禁实验研究奠定了基础,也为开展其他新的分子冷却实验提供了参考.     

Surface-induced evaporative cooling

The effects of surface-induced evaporative cooling on an atom chip are investigated. The evolutions of temperature, number and phase-space density of the atom cloud are measured when the atom cloud is brought close to the surface. Rapid decrease of the temperature and number of the atoms is found when the atom-surface distance is < 100~μm. A gain of about a factor of five on the phase-space density is obtained. It is found that the efficiency of the surface-induced evaporative cooling depends on the atom-surface distance and the shape of the evaporative trap. When the atoms are moved very close to the surface, severe heating is observed, which dominates when the holding time is >8~ms. It is important that the surface-induced evaporative cooling offers novel possibilities for the realization of a continuous condensation, where a spatially varying evaporative cooling is required.     

Single layer atom chip for magnetically trapping one-dimensional array of ultracold atoms

<正>We propose a wire configuration to create a one-dimensional(1D) array of magnetic microtraps for trapping ultracold atoms.The configuration is formed by replacing the central part of the Z-wire pattern with a zigzag wire. We simulate the performance of this pattern by the finite element method which can take both the width and depth of the wire into consideration.The result of simulation shows that this configuration can create magnetic microtraps which can be separated and combined by changing the bias magnetic field.We manage to split the Z-wire trap and prove that a similar result can occur for the new wire configuration.The fabrication processes of the atom chip are also introduced.Finally we discuss the loading method.