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Prospect for BEC in a cesium gas: one-dimensional evaporative cooling in a hybrid magnetic and optical trap

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Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a atomic cesium gas prepared in a “low field seeker” Zeeman sublevel and confined in a magnetic trap has been thwarted by a high cross-section of inelastic spin-flip collisions. A recent experiment [1] succeeded in reaching BEC for cesium atoms using all optical methods and tuning the scattering length. We will discuss a hybrid magnetic and optical trap for cesium atoms in the true hyperfine ground state, the “high field seeker” Zeeman sublevel, F = m F = 3. Although this trap allows only one-dimensional (1D) evaporative cooling, we show that a route towards BEC with such a trap should be possible. We present simulations of 1D evaporative cooling, which shows that a high phase space density (PSD) of 0.1 could be reached in less than 10 seconds.

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  1. Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, Bâtiment 505, Campus d’Orsay, 91405, Orsay, France

    S. Boussen, N. Hoang, S. Guibal, N. Zahzam, L. Pruvost, D. Marescaux, J. Pinard & P. Pillet

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Received: 25 July 2003

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03.75.Hh Static properties of condensates; thermodynamical, statistical and structural properties - 05.30.Jp Boson systems - 32.80.Pj Optical cooling of atoms; trapping

Laboratoire Aimé Cotton is associated with University of Paris-Sud.

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Boussen, S., Hoang, N., Guibal, S. et al. Prospect for BEC in a cesium gas: one-dimensional evaporative cooling in a hybrid magnetic and optical trap. Eur. Phys. J. D 28, 259–266 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00297-y

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