Magnetic merging of ultracold atomic gases of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb

Details Magnetic merging of ultracold atomic gases of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb Magnetic merging of ultracold atomic gases of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb

2010-11-29

arxiv.org/abs/1011.6273v1

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Atomic Physics

18 pages, 7 figures; http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053633

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053633

We report on the magnetic merging of ultracold atomic gases of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb by the controlled overlap of two initially spatially-separated magnetic traps. We present a detailed analysis of the combined magnetic field potential as the two traps are brought together which predicts a clear optimum trajectory for the merging. We verify this prediction experimentally using $^{85}$Rb and find that the final atom number in the merged trap is maximised with minimal heating by following the predicted optimum trajectory. Using the magnetic merging approach allows us to create variable ratio isotopic Rb mixtures with a single laser cooling setup by simply storing one isotope in a magnetic trap before jumping the laser frequencies to the transitions necessary to laser cool the second isotope. This offers a simple and cost effective way to achieve suitable starting conditions for sympathetic cooling of $^{85}$Rb by $^{87}$Rb towards quantum degeneracy.

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