Bose-Einstein condensation of 88Sr through sympathetic cooling with 87Sr
| dc.citation.journalTitle | Physical Review A | en_US |
| dc.citation.pageNumber | 051601 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 81 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Mickelson, P.G. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Martinez de Escobar, Y.N. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Yan, M. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | DeSalvo, B.J. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Killian, T.C. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-26T21:21:54Z | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-26T21:21:54Z | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-05-05 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | We report Bose-Einstein condensation of Sr88, which has a small, negative s-wave scattering length (a88=−2a0). We overcome the poor evaporative cooling characteristics of this isotope by sympathetic cooling with Sr87 atoms. Sr87 is effective in this role despite the fact that it is a fermion because of the large ground-state degeneracy arising from a nuclear spin of I=9/2, which reduces the impact of Pauli blocking of collisions. We observe a limited number of atoms in the condensate (Nmax≈104) that is consistent with the value of a88 and the optical dipole trap parameters. | en_US |
| dc.embargo.terms | none | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/68392 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.title | Bose-Einstein condensation of 88Sr through sympathetic cooling with 87Sr | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |