Creation of a Bose-condensed gas of87Rb by laser cooling
| Autor: | Wenlan Chen, Vladan Vuletic, Zachary Vendeiro, Valentin Crépel, Jiazhong Hu, Alban Urvoy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases
Physics Optical lattice education.field_of_study Multidisciplinary Population chemistry.chemical_element 01 natural sciences Rubidium 010309 optics Optical pumping chemistry Laser cooling 0103 physical sciences Atom Physics::Atomic Physics Atomic physics 010306 general physics Ground state education Evaporative cooler |
| Zdroj: | Science. 358:1078-1080 |
| ISSN: | 1095-9203 0036-8075 |
| Popis: | We demonstrate direct laser cooling of a gas of rubidium 87 atoms to quantum degeneracy. The method does not involve evaporative cooling, is fast, and induces little atom loss. The atoms are trapped in a two-dimensional optical lattice that enables cycles of cloud compression to increase the density, followed by degenerate Raman sideband cooling to decrease the temperature. Light-induced loss at high atomic density is substantially reduced by using far red detuned optical pumping light. Starting with 2000 atoms, we prepare 1400 atoms in 300 ms at quantum degeneracy, as confirmed by the appearance of a bimodal velocity distribution as the system crosses over from a classical gas to a Bose-condensed, interacting one-dimensional gas with a macroscopic population of the quantum ground state. The method should be broadly applicable to many bosonic and fermionic species, and to systems where evaporative cooling is not possible. |
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