Delta Kick Cooling and Velocity Selection
for an Atom Tunneling Experiment
A poster presented at the 1999 Gordon Conference on Dynamics of Simple Systems
S. H. Myrskog, J. K. Fox, A. M. Jofre and A. M. Steinberg
Department of Physics, University of Toronto
H. S. Moon, H. A. Kim and J. B. Kim
Korea National University of Education
Velocity selection will be used to select the coldest atoms for the tunneling experiment. In the final version of the technique, a magnetic quadrupole trap will be used to contain the atoms, while the optical dipole force barrier sweeps though the trapped cold atom cloud. The coldest atoms in the distribution will be swept up to one side and then used for further study.
Delta Kick Cooling
A brief description: Cooling
via an Harmonic Kick
Some
experimental results
Theoretical
Comparison
Velocity Selection
How can we select the
coldest atoms?
Theoretical
Predictions
Preliminary
Data
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