Mirror magneto-optical trap exploiting hexapole-compensated magnetic field
Journal Article
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· Physical Review. A
- Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, NICT, 588-2 Iwaoka, Nishi-ku, Kobe 651-2492 (Japan)
- CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012 (Japan)
- Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu 182-8585 (Japan)
- Department of Physics, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570 (Japan)
A mirror magneto-optical trap (MOT) that exploits a hexapole-compensated magnetic field was developed and used in the experimental surface trapping of neutral atoms. A pair of subsidiary wires, which was placed near the main current-carrying wire, was designed to improve the uniformity of the quadrupole magnetic field and thus increased the effective capture volume of our mirror-MOT. In the experiment, the number of {sup 87}Rb atoms captured with our mirror-MOT was approximately twice that captured with a conventional mirror-MOT.
- OSTI ID:
- 21011266
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 76; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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