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cooling process compresses one dimension <strong>of</strong> the magnetic trap completely<br />

both in position and momentum space (neglecting a photon recoil). This can<br />

be expressed in Eq. 4.5 by setting the product over the vertical dimension (ˆz)<br />

to 1. With this assumption we can write an upper bound on the expected<br />

transfer efficiency <strong>of</strong> the single-photon cooling process as<br />

ηspc = σ (i)<br />

<br />

<br />

(i)<br />

O T <br />

O<br />

∝ (σB TB) −2 , (4.6)<br />

i={x,y}<br />

σ (i)<br />

B<br />

T (i)<br />

B<br />

where TB = T (i)<br />

B reflects a thermalized magnetic trap, and σB ≡ σ (x)<br />

B = 2σ(y)<br />

B<br />

reflects the anisotropic geometry <strong>of</strong> our magnetic quadrupole trap. We see<br />

then, for a fixed optical trap geometry and depth that ηspc is determined by<br />

the initial conditions in the magnetic trap. This expression can be simplified<br />

even further by noting that for a thermalized ensemble the size <strong>of</strong> the cloud<br />

in the magnetic trap is function <strong>of</strong> its temperature σB = σB(TB). Figure 4.26<br />

shows a plot <strong>of</strong> the size <strong>of</strong> the magnetic cloud as a function <strong>of</strong> magnetic trap<br />

temperature. We find that a linear fit <strong>of</strong> the measured radii in this regime<br />

yields σB = (25.8 + 5.5TB µK −1 )µm.<br />

Figure 4.27 shows the experimentally measured transfer efficiencies<br />

along with the predicted upper bound, given in Eq. 4.6, for several magnetic<br />

trap temperatures. Data in this figure show fair agreement with Eq. 4.6 below<br />

40µK, but there is a trend <strong>of</strong> increasing efficiency, with respect to the upper<br />

bound, with increasing temperature. We believe that this can be understood<br />

by noting that our derivation <strong>of</strong> ηspc is for a non-interacting ensemble. In this<br />

case, the initial trajectories <strong>of</strong> atoms in the magnetic trap fully determine the<br />

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