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Figure 4.24: Absorption image <strong>of</strong> approximately 1.5 × 10 5 atoms trapped in<br />

the optical trough. In this image false color is used to represent atomic density,<br />

magenta being the most dense.<br />

come to thermal equilibrium and therefore does not represent temperature in<br />

the thermodynamics sense, rather T (z)<br />

O<br />

reflects the velocity distribution in the<br />

vertical direction (see Sec. 1.6 for a discussion <strong>of</strong> this use <strong>of</strong> “temperature”).<br />

T (z)<br />

O increases monotonically with hp, reflecting the energy gained by atoms<br />

during free fall from the depopulation beam to the trough vertex. Atoms which<br />

decay into the anti-trapped |F = 1,mF = 1〉 state gain additional energy from<br />

the magnetic field gradient. For values <strong>of</strong> hp > 100µm, this increase in energy<br />

is sufficient to cause trap loss; atoms have enough energy to push through the<br />

bottom <strong>of</strong> the optical trough. To minimize the temperature <strong>of</strong> the transfered<br />

sample one should therefore minimize hp so that atoms are depopulated near<br />

the trough vertex. However, for small values <strong>of</strong> hp the optical dipole beams<br />

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