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Acta Physica Sinica

The design of quadrapole-Ioffe configuration trap for quantum degenerate Fermi-Bose mixtures

Pengjun Wang, Haixia Chen, Xiong De-Zhi, Xudong Yu, Gao Feng, Jing Zhang, 山西大学光电研究所，量子光学与光量子器件国家重点实验室，太原 030006

Published Jan 1, 2008• 5 citations
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Abstract

The quadrapole-Ioffe configuration (QUIC) trap consists of two identical quadrupole coils and one Ioffe coil, which has been applied widely to trap neutral atoms for evaporation cooling. We have designed two different structures of the QUIC trap. By the numerical calculation and experimental test, we obtained the optimized structure. In the QUIC trap, the magnetically trapped rubidium-87 atoms are cooled evaporatively to below the phase transition of Bose-Einstein condensation, at the same time, the potassium-40 atoms are cooled sympathetically to the Fermi degeneracy.

DOI
10.7498/aps.57.4840

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