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R. Jung S. Gerlach R. Schumann G. von Oppen U. Eichmann 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2003,23(3):415-419
We report on the first successful loading of a magneto-optical trap (MOT) with metastable He atoms from a Stark-slower. Thereby,
deceleration of the atoms relies on laser-atom interaction in an inhomogeneous electric field. We show that the results obtained
are comparable with early results from other groups achieved with a Zeeman slower. The Stark slower, which is able to fully
control the final velocity of the atomic He beam, is the first step in achieving complete spin independent kinematic control
based solely on electric fields.
Received 2 October 2002 / Received in final form 20 January 2003 Published online 29 April 2003
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D. Boiron C. Mennerat-Robilliard J.-M. Fournier L. Guidoni C. Salomon G. Grynberg 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》1999,7(3):373-377
We present the results of two experiments where cold cesium atoms are trapped in a speckle field. In the first experiment,
a YAG laser creates the speckle pattern and induces a far-detuned dipole potential which is a nearly-conservative potential.
Localization of atoms near the intensity maxima of the speckle field is observed. In a second experiment we use two counterpropagating
laser beams tuned close to a resonance line of cesium and in the linlin configuration, one of them being modulated by a holographic diffuser that creates the speckle field. Three-dimensional
cooling is observed. Variations of the temperature and of the spatial diffusion coefficient with the size of a speckle grain
are presented.
Received 16 December 1998 and Received in final form 16 April 1999 相似文献
3.
F. Pereira Dos Santos F. Perales J. Léonard A. Sinatra Junmin Wang F. Saverio Pavone E. Rasel C.S. Unnikrishnan M. Leduc 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,14(1):15-22
We present experimental results on the two-body loss rates in a magneto-optical trap of metastable helium atoms. Absolute
rates are measured in a systematic way for several laser detunings ranging from -5 to -30 MHz and at different intensities,
by monitoring the decay of the trap fluorescence. The dependence of the two-body loss rate coefficient β on the excited state
( 23
P
2) and metastable state ( 23
S
1) populations is also investigated. From these results we infer a rather uniform rate constant K
sp = (1±0.4)×10-7 cm3/s.
Received 8 September 2000 and Received in final form 19 December 2000 相似文献
4.
V. Wippel C. Binder W. Huber L. Windholz M. Allegrini F. Fuso E. Arimondo 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,17(3):285-291
A two element magneto-optical trap (MOT) for Na and 7Li or 6Li is used to cool and trap each of them separately. A fraction of the cold atoms is maintained in the first 2P3/2 excited state by the cooling laser. These excited state atoms are ionized by laser light in the near-UV region, giving rise
to a smaller number of trapped atoms and to different loading parameters. Photoionization cross-sections were derived out
of these data. They are in reasonable agreement with data previously obtained using thermal samples and with theoretical predictions.
Received 21 March 2001 and Received in final form 3 August 2001 相似文献
5.
G. Modugno G. Roati M. Inguscio M.S. Santos G.D. Telles L.G. Marcassa V.S. Bagnato 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2003,23(3):409-413
We report a comparative investigation of trap loss rates in a magneto-optical trap for two potassium isotopes, 39K and 40K, as a function of trap light intensity. The isotopes present a quite similar behavior for the loss rates at high intensities,
and a sudden increase of the loss rates at low intensities is present in both cases. While for 39K such increase can be explained assuming that the major contribution to the losses comes from hyperfine changing collisions,
a different loss mechanism must be considered for 40K, which has an inverted ground state hyperfine structure. The experimental results of both isotopes are well reproduced by
an alternative model based on radiative escape as the dominant loss mechanism.
Received 1st May 2002 / Received in final form 19 October 2002 Published online 4 March 2003
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6.
C. Triché P. Verkerk G. Grynberg 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》1999,5(2):225-228
We present an experimental study of the kinetic temperature of cesium atoms interacting with laser beams tuned on the blue
side of the transition. In the case of a three-dimensional four-beam molasses, temperatures as low as 800 nK were found. These low temperatures
are compatible with a good capture efficiency. The influence of other hyperfine transitions on the temperature is significant.
In the presence of a static magnetic field (antidot lattices), the temperatures are slightly higher but show a much weaker
dependence on the other hyperfine transitions.
Received: 14 May 1998 / Received in final form: 16 October 1998 / Accepted: 2 November 1998 相似文献
7.
J. Jersblad H. Ellmann L. Sanchez-Palencia A. Kastberg 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2003,22(3):333-339
We present a direct measurement of velocity distributions in two dimensions by using an absorption imaging technique in a
3D near resonant optical lattice. The results show a clear difference in the velocity distributions for the different directions.
The experimental results are compared with a numerical 3D semi-classical Monte-Carlo simulation. The numerical simulations
are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental results.
Received 3 September 2002 / Received in final form 25 October 2002 Published online 11 February 2003 相似文献
8.
H. Pu T. Cai N.P. Bigelow 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》1999,7(3):269-278
We present a semi-classical theory of the light pressure force for atoms interacting with a two-dimensional laser field. Unlike
previous 2D theory, ours is valid for general atomic level and laser field configurations. We show that striking new features
appear in the velocity-dependent force arising from the multi-dimensionality. Finally, we describe in detail the novel numerical
technique used in the calculation.
Received 4 December 1998 and Received in final form 13 February 1999 相似文献
9.
Ch. Lisdat O. Dulieu H. Knöckel E. Tiemann 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,17(3):319-328
We present a new determination of the potential curves and interactions of the coupled electronic states A
1
Σ
+
u
and b
3
Π
u
of the potassium dimer, based on new laser spectroscopy measurements within a molecular beam, combined with data available
in the literature. We used a new global deperturbation approach, involving the Fourier Grid Hamiltonian method for energy
level calculation. A standard deviation of 1.2 is obtained corresponding to a variance of 7.5×10
-3
cm-1, representing a significant improvement compared to the standard deviation of 4 yielded by the traditional local deperturbation
approach.
Received 12 June 2001 and Received in final form 3 September 2001 相似文献
10.
C. Champenois M. Knoop M. Herbane M. Houssin T. Kaing M. Vedel F. Vedel 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,15(1):105-111
Frequency standard applications and ultra-high resolution spectroscopy of a confined single ion require traps of drastically
reduced dimensions (about or below 1 mm). These small dimensions increase the sensitivity of the trapping behavior to imperfections
in the trap geometry and to patch potentials. For the aim of the metrological laser interrogation of a single Ca+ ion, a miniature cylindrical ring trap was built. In order to optimize the laser cooling process and to reach strong binding
conditions, the boundaries of the stability diagram and the zones of low confinement as well as the ion motion properties
were characterized.
Received 14 November 2000 and Received in final form 1st February 2001 相似文献
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12.
J.H. Thywissen M. Olshanii G. Zabow M. Drndić K.S. Johnson R.M. Westervelt M. Prentiss 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》1999,7(3):361-367
We describe how tightly confining magnetic waveguides for atoms can be created with microfabricated or nanofabricated wires.
Rubidium atoms guided in the devices we have fabricated would have a transverse mode energy spacing of K. We discuss the creation of a single-mode waveguide for atom interferometry whose depth is comparable to magneto-optical
trap (MOT) temperatures. We also discuss the application of microfabricated waveguides to low-dimensional systems of quantum
degenerate gases, and show that confinement can be strong enough to observe fermionization in a strongly interacting bosonic
ensemble.
Received 1st December 1998 and Received in final form 23 February 1999 相似文献
13.
Y.-B. Zhang H.J.W. Müller-Kirsten 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,17(3):351-363
An instanton method is proposed to investigate the quantum tunneling between two weakly-linked Bose-Einstein condensates confined
in double-well potential traps. We point out some intrinsic pathologies in the earlier treatments of other authors and make
an effort to go beyond these very simple zero order models. The tunneling amplitude may be calculated in the Thomas-Fermi
approximation and beyond it; we find it depends on the number of the trapped atoms, through the chemical potential. Some suggestions
are given for the observation of the Josephson oscillation and the MQST.
Received 29 June 2001 and Received in final form 17 September 2001 相似文献
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15.
M.-L. Almazor O. Dulieu F. Masnou-Seeuws R. Beuc G. Pichler 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,15(3):355-363
We propose a new possibility to form ultracold molecules, via photoassociation of a pair of cold atoms into vibrational levels of the external well of an excited electronic state located
at intermediate interatomic distance ( ≈ 20 Bohr radii), and embedded in the dissociation continuum above its dissociation
limit. The existence of such a well is demonstrated by conventional free-free absorption spectroscopy at thermal energies.
Estimation for cold atom photoassociation and cold molecule formation rates are obtained within a perturbative approach [Drag
et al., IEEE J. Quant. Electr. 36, 1378 (2000)], and are found observable for usual conditions of photoassociation experiments.
Received 1st March 2001 相似文献
16.
Single-beam optical bottle for cold atoms using a conical lens 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
L. Cacciapuoti M. de Angelis G. Pierattini G.M. Tino 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,14(3):373-376
We report a new method to generate an optical dipole potential with a null intensity region surrounded in all directions by
light walls. This is achieved with a simple scheme based on a conical lens. Applications to optical trapping of neutral atoms
are discussed.
Received 4 September 2000 and Received in final form 21 January 2001 相似文献
17.
E. Peik 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》1999,6(2):179-183
An electrodynamic trap is proposed that stores cold neutral atoms or nonpolar molecules in their ground state as well as in
excited states by means of the quadratic Stark effect. The trap uses an oscillating hexapole field and a superposed static
homogeneous field. The dynamics of an atom in this trap can be described as a harmonic oscillation in a static pseudopotential.
Stability criteria and sample parameters for a number of atomic species are given.
Received: 7 August 1998 / Received in final form: 7 January 1999 相似文献
18.
Z.P. Karkuszewski K. Sacha A. Smerzi 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2002,21(3):251-254
We study a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in an asymmetric double well potential. Solutions of the time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii
equation reveal intrinsic loops in the energy (or chemical potential) level behavior when the shape of the potential is varied.
We investigate the corresponding behavior of the quantum (many-body) energy levels. Applying the two-mode approximation to
the bosonic field operators, we show that the quantum energy levels create an anti-crossing net inside the region bounded
by the loop of the mean field solution.
Received 6 March 2002 / Received in final form 19 September 2002 Published online 15 November 2002
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19.
A. Fioretti C. Amiot C.M. Dion O. Dulieu M. Mazzoni G. Smirne C. Gabbanini 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,15(2):189-198
We report the detailed analysis of translationally cold rubidium molecule formation through photoassociation. Cold molecules
are formed after spontaneous decay of photoexcited molecules from a laser cooled atomic sample, and are detected by selective
mass spectroscopy after two-photon ionization into Rb
2
+
ions. A spectroscopic study of the 0
g
-
(5
S
+ 5
P
3/2
) pure long-range state of 87Rb2 is performed by detecting the ion yield as a function of the photoassociation laser frequency; the spectral data are theoretically
analyzed within the semiclassical RKR approach. Molecular ionization is resonantly enhanced through either the 2
3
Π
g
or the 2
3
Σ
+
g
intermediate molecular states. Some vibrational levels of the latter electronic state are observed and assigned here for
the first time. Finally, cold molecules formation rates are calculated and compared to the experimentally measured ones, and
the vibrational distribution of the formed molecules in the a
3
Σ
+
u
ground triplet state is discussed.
Received 18 January 2001 and Received in final form 10 April 2001 相似文献
20.
H. Ellmann J. Jersblad A. Kastberg 《The European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics》2001,13(3):379-384
A detailed experimental study of the steady-state temperature in a 3D optical lattice for cesium has been performed for a
wide range of detunings. Specifically, we have investigated the situation with the cooling and trapping light detuned far
red of a ( J
g↦J
e = J
g + 1)-transition, where the blue detuned interaction with a ( J
g↦J
e = J
g)-transition can not be neglected. We find that the temperature scales with the optical potential due to the interaction with
just the ( J
g↦J
e = J
g + 1)-transition. This indicates that blue Sisyphus cooling has essentially no effect on the dynamics of the system, when
there exists a neighbouring red detuned transition.
Received 6 June 2000 and Received in final form 26 September 2000 相似文献