1. Partially ferromagnetic electromagnet for trapping and cooling neutral atoms to quantum degeneracy
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Fauquembergue, Marie, Riou, Jean-Félix, Guerin, William, Rangwala, Sadiq, Moron, Frédéric, Villing, André, Coq, Yann Le, Lécrivain, Michel, Bouyer, Philippe, and Aspect, Alain
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Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter - Abstract
We have developed a compact partially ferromagnetic electromagnet to produce a Ioffe-Pritchard trap for neutral atoms. Our structure permits strong magnetic confinement with low power consumption. Compared to the previous iron-core electromagnet, it allows for easy compensation of remnant fields and very high stability, along with cost-effective realization and compactness. We describe and characterize our apparatus and demonstrate trapping and cooling of Rb 87 atoms to quantum degeneracy. Pure Bose-Einstein condensates containing 10^6 atoms are routinely realized on a half-minute cycle. In addition we test the stability of the magnetic trap by producing atom lasers.
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- 2005
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