All-optical formation of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate

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Barrett, MD [1 ]
Sauer, JA [1 ]
Chapman, MS [1 ]
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[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.010404
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O4 [物理学];
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We have created a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of Rb-87 atoms directly in an optical trap. We employ a quasielectrostatic dipole force trap formed by two crossed CO2 laser beams. Loading directly from a sub-Doppler laser-cooled cloud of atoms results in initial phase space densities of similar to1/200. Evaporatively cooling through the BEC transition is achieved by lowering the power in the trapping beams over similar to2 s. The resulting condensates are F = 1 spinors with 3.5 x 10(4) atoms distributed between the m(F) = (-1,0, 1) states.
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