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Single-Photon Atomic Cooling - Raizen Lab - The University of ...

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Figure 4.27: Experimentally measured transfer efficiencies (circles) as a func-<br />

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tion <strong>of</strong> magnetic trap temperature. <strong>The</strong> solid line <br />

represents the predicted<br />

<br />

upper bound capture efficiency given by Eq. 4.6. Inset shows the calculated<br />

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<br />

average single particle collision rate in the magentic trap. <br />

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magnetic trap as a function <strong>of</strong> temperature. As shown in the figure, there<br />

is a monotonically increasing trend. <strong>The</strong> effect <strong>of</strong> collisions is to rethermal-<br />

ize the magnetic trap during the single-photon cooling process, repopulating<br />

trappable trajectories as they are depleted by the depopulation beam. <strong>The</strong>re-<br />

fore, transfer efficiencies are expected to be enhanced for weakly interacting<br />

ensembles, in agreement with the measured trend.<br />

To gain further insight into the transfer process, we compared the rate<br />

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