Radiative collisional heating at the Doppler limit for laser-cooled magnesium atoms

Details Radiative collisional heating at the Doppler limit for laser-cooled magnesium atoms Radiative collisional heating at the Doppler limit for laser-cooled magnesium atoms

2003-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0311039v2

Phys. Rev. A 70 013410 (2004)

Physics

Atomic Physics

4 pages, RevTeX 4; v2 contains minor revisions based on referee comments (5 pages)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.013410

We report Monte Carlo wave function simulation results on cold collisions between magnesium atoms in a strong red-detuned laser field. This is the normal situation e.g. in magneto-optical traps (MOT). The Doppler limit heating rate due to radiative collisions is calculated for Mg-24 atoms in a magneto-optical trap based on the singlet S_0 - singlet P_1 atomic laser cooling transition. We find that radiative heating does not seem to affect the Doppler limit in this case. We also describe a channelling mechanism due to the missing Q branch in the excitation scheme, which could lead to a suppression of inelastic collisions, and find that this mechanism is not present in our simulation results due to the multistate character of the excitation process.

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