AN ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR EVAPORATIVE COOLING OF ATOMS

被引:75
作者
DAVIS, KB [1 ]
MEWES, MO [1 ]
KETTERLE, W [1 ]
机构
[1] MIT,ELECTR RES LAB,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02139
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APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS | 1995年 / 60卷 / 2-3期
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10.1007/BF01135857
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Evaporative cooling of trapped atoms is described as a sequence of truncation of the high-energy tail of the thermal distribution followed by collisional relaxation. This model is solved analytically for arbitrary power-law potentials. The threshold density for accelerated evaporation is found to be lowest in a three-dimensional linear potential.
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