Heating of trapped atoms near thermal surfaces

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1999-02-02

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9902009v3

Europhys.Lett. 47 (1999) 414-420

Physics

Quantum Physics

to be published in Europhys. Lett. (7 pages, 3 figures, includes europhys.sty style file)

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i1999-00404-8

We study the electromagnetic coupling and concomitant heating of a particle in a miniaturized trap close to a solid surface. Two dominant heating mechanisms are identified: proximity fields generated by thermally excited currents in the absorbing solid and time-dependent image potentials due to elastic surface distortions (Rayleigh phonons). Estimates for the lifetime of the trap ground state are given. Ions are particularly sensitive to electric proximity fields: for a silver substrate, we find a lifetime below one second at distances closer than some ten micrometer to the surface. Neutral atoms may approach the surface more closely: if they have a magnetic moment, a minimum distance of one micrometer is estimated in tight traps, the heat being transferred via magnetic proximity fields. For spinless atoms, heat is transferred by inelastic scattering of virtual photons off surface phonons. The corresponding lifetime, however, is estimated to be extremely long compared to the timescale of typical experiments.

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