| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 67, Number 4, August 2004
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| Page(s) | 593 - 599 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10095-7 | |
| Published online | 01 August 2004 | |
Ultracold atoms confined in rf-induced two-dimensional trapping potentials
Laboratoire de physique des lasers, CNRS-Université Paris 13 99 avenue Jean-Baptiste Clément, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
Received:
1
March
2004
Accepted:
7
June
2004
We present the experimental implementation of a new trap for cold atoms proposed by O. Zobay and B. M. Garraway (Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 1195). It relies on adiabatic potentials for atoms dressed by a rf field in an inhomogeneous magnetic field. This trap is well suited to confine atoms tightly along one direction to produce a two-dimensional atomic gas. We transferred ultracold atoms into this trap, starting either from thermal samples or Bose-Einstein condensates. In the latter case, technical noise during the loading stage caused heating and prevented us from observing 2D BECs.
PACS: 42.50.Vk – Mechanical effects of light on atoms, molecules, electrons, and ions / 03.75.-b – Matter waves / 32.80.Pj – Optical cooling of atoms; trapping
© EDP Sciences, 2004
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