Trapping of Neutral Rubidium with a Macroscopic Three-Phase Electric Trap

Rieger, T. ; Windpassinger, P. ; Rangwala, S. A. ; Rempe, G. ; Pinkse, P. W. H. (2007) Trapping of Neutral Rubidium with a Macroscopic Three-Phase Electric Trap Physical Review Letters, 99 (6). ISSN 0031-9007

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.063001

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.063001

Abstract

We trap neutral ground-state rubidium atoms in a macroscopic trap based on purely electric fields. For this, three electrostatic field configurations are alternated in a periodic manner. The rubidium is precooled in a magneto-optical trap, transferred into a magnetic trap and then translated into the electric trap. The electric trap consists of six rod-shaped electrodes in cubic arrangement, giving ample optical access. Up to 10^5 atoms have been trapped with an initial temperature of around 20 microkelvin in the three-phase electric trap. The observations are in good agreement with detailed numerical simulations.

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