Evaporative cooling of an atomic beam

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1999-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9909378v2

Eur. Phys. J. D 10, p.9-18 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 7 figures, to be published in EPJ D, revised version

Scientific paper

10.1007/s100530050521

We present a theoretical analysis of the evaporative cooling of an atomic beam propagating in a magnetic guide. Cooling is provided by transverse evaporation. The atomic dynamics inside the guide is analyzed by solving the Boltzmann equation with two different approaches: an approximate analytical ansatz and a Monte-Carlo simulation. Within their domain of validity, these two methods are found to be in very good agreement with each other. They allow us to determine how the phase-space density and the flux of the beam vary along its direction of propagation. We find a significant increase for the phase-space density along the guide for realistic experimental parameters. By extrapolation, we estimate the length of the beam needed to reach quantum degeneracy.

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