Bichromatic Coherent Population Trapping Under Hanle Configuration

We report the observation of bichromatic coherent population trapping under the transition ^87 RbFg = 1 → Fc = 0 with two linearly polarized laser beams by means of a Hanle effect configuration. The mechanism behind this effect is identified, and numerical solutions for the pump rates equations are presented.     

蒙特卡罗模拟四极阱中原子的参变激发

在中性原子的磁囚禁实验中,磁阱线圈的电流噪声会激发磁阱中的原子运动,势必对原子团的温度和寿命产生不可忽视的影响。对于非简谐阱,这种激发具有能量选择特性,它又取决于电流噪声的频谱分布。选择了实验中常用的四极阱为研究对象,用直接模拟蒙特卡罗方法来模拟四极阱中原子运动的参变激发现象,得到了原子温度与原子数损失随激发频率的变化关系,并进一步计算了两个共振峰处原子温度随调制时间和调制深度的变化曲线。此外,还研究了弹性碰撞速率对参变激发过程中原子温度上升的影响。这些结果对四极阱参变激发的实验有较好的参考价值。     

基于垂直引线和调制电流的三线环形磁导引

提出了一种在单层原子芯片上实现闭合且导引中心无磁场零点的环形磁导引的新方案. 芯片表面刻蚀的导线结构由同心等距三环线构成, 三环线的电流引线垂直于芯片表面. 加载直流电流后, 这种构型即可在芯片表面附近产生闭合的环形磁导引. 交流调制三环线电流后, 环形磁导引的势能极小值附近不再存在磁场零点且其磁场起伏小. 这种方案可用于基于物质波干涉的原子芯片陀螺仪研究.     

一种实现冷原子束聚集的微磁透镜新方案

本文报道了对87Rb冷原子云聚焦的微磁透镜实验．磁透镜的核心部件是一个半径为2mm的微型线圈．当冷原子云沿线圈轴向运动到线圈附近时,线圈产生的非均匀磁场会对原子云实现纵向压缩．在线圈电流加载时间为10ms的情况下,原子云纵向尺寸随线圈电流增加先表现为会聚趋势;在某一电流值（0．9A）之后,表现为扩散趋势．与不加载线圈电流的情形相比较,电流为0．9A时的冷原子云纵向尺寸缩小了一个多量级,透镜焦距约为1．3mm．通过同时调节线圈电流的大小和作用时间,可实现对透镜焦距的调节．同时用数值模拟方法模拟了实验过程,模拟结果与实验结果基本符合．     

Direct loading of atoms from a macroscopic quadrupole magnetic trap into a microchip trap

We demonstrate the direct loading of cold atoms into a microchip 2-mm Z-trap, where the evaporative cooling can be performed efficiently, from a macroscopic quadrupole magnetic trap with a high loading efficiency. The macroscopic quadrupole magnetic trap potential is designed to be moveable by controlling the currents of the two pairs of anti-Helmholtz coils. The cold atoms are initially prepared in a standard six-beam magneto-optical trap and loaded into the macroscopic quadrupole magnetic trap, and then transported to the atom chip surface by moving the macroscopic trap potential. By means of a three-dimensional absorption imaging system, we are able to optimize the position alignment of the atom cloud in the macroscopic trap and the microchip Z-shaped wire. Consequently, with a proper magnetic transfer scheme, we load the cold atoms into the microchip Z-trap directly and efficiently. The loading efficiency is measured to be about 50%.This approach can be used to generate appropriate ultracold atoms sources, for example, for a magnetically guided atom interferometer based on atom chip.     

紫外光诱导原子脱附技术在单腔磁阱装载中的应用

基于光诱导的原子脱附技术，采用脉冲紫外光剥离出玻璃池壁上吸附的铷原子以形成可快速开启和关断的脉冲铷原子源，成功地解决了单真空腔系统中磁阱的原子数和寿命之间的矛盾，突破了激光冷却和囚禁技术向小型化乃至微型化发展过程中的一个瓶颈.脉冲光源由390nm的LED阵列组成.实验结果表明它能够在1s内使真空铷原子气体分压提高近30倍,并且当紫外光关闭后系统的真空恢复到平衡状态的时间非常短，约120ms.测量了不同铷原子分压下磁光阱所俘获的最大原子数和装载时间,并由此得出系统的背景真空和磁光阱所能俘获的极限原子数，进一步得出磁阱的原子数-寿命积与磁光阱保持阶段时间的变化关系，结果显示在约1.25s处出现极大值，与无磁光阱保持阶段而直接进行磁阱装载情况相比提高了约0.3倍. 关键词： 激光冷却 磁光阱 光诱导原子脱附 原子数-寿命积     

Cooling induced by parametric resonance in a magnetic quadrupole trap

It is demonstrated experimentally that the anharmonic property of the quadrupole trap can be exploited to cool trapped atoms by modulating the trap potential anisotropically.This cooling effect arises from the energy-selective removal of the most energetic trapped atoms and the thermal equilibrium of the remaining atoms.The frequency dependences of the temperature and the fraction of the atoms left in the trap after the modulation are explored.It is also demonstrated that the cooling induced by parametric resonance can also increase the phase space density of the trapped atoms.     

Optimal transport of cold atoms by modulating the velocity of traps

This work experimentally demonstrates a new method of optimizing the transport of cold atoms via modulating the velocity profile imposed on a magnetic quadrupole trap.The trap velocity and corresponding modulation are controlled by varying the currents of two pairs of anti-Helmholtz coils.Cold 87Rb atoms are transported in a non-adiabatic regime over 22 mm in 200 ms.For the transported atoms their final-vibration amplitude dependences of modulation period number,depth,and initial phase are investigated.With modulation period n = 5,modulation depth K = 0.55,and initial phase φ = 0,cold atom clouds with more atom numbers,smaller final-vibration amplitude,and lower temperature are efficiently transported.Theoretical analysis and numerical simulation are also provided,which are in good agreement with experimental results.