Thermal spin flips in atom chips

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2004-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403166v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, typeset using Revtex4, 5 PS figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.013811

We derive the spontaneous and thermal spin-flip rates for a neutral two-level ultra-cold atom that is coupled to a magnetic field. We apply this theory to an atom in the vicinity of a 2-layer cylindrical absorbing dielectric body surrounded by an unbounded homogeneous medium. An analytical expression is obtained for the spontaneous and thermal spin-flip rate in this particular geometry. The corresponding lifetime is then computed numerically. We compare these theoretical lifetimes to those measured by Jones et al. [M.P.A. Jones, C.J. Vale, D. Sahagun, B.V. Hall, and E.A. Hinds, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91}, 080401 (2003)]. We investigate how the lifetime depends on the materials (skin depths) of the cylindrical body. We also show how scaling of the dimensions of the cylindrical body affects the lifetime when (i) the distance from the wire to the atom is fixed and (ii) when the distance from the wire to the atom is scaled.

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