All Optical Formation of an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate

Details All Optical Formation of an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate All Optical Formation of an Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensate

2001-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106027v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.010404

We have created a Bose-Einstein condensate of 87Rb atoms directly in an optical trap. We employ a quasi-electrostatic dipole force trap formed by two crossed CO_2 laser beams. Loading directly from a sub-doppler laser-cooled cloud of atoms results in initial phase space densities of ~1/200. Evaporatively cooling through the BEC transition is achieved by lowering the power in the trapping beams over ~ 2 s. The resulting condensates are F=1 spinors with 3.5 x 10^4 atoms distributed between the m_F = (-1,0,1) states.

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