85Tunable-interaction Bose-einstein condensate machine

P. A. Altin; N. P. Robins; D. Döring; J. E. Debs; R. Poldy; C. Figl; J. D. Close

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⁸⁵Tunable-interaction Bose-einstein condensate machine

P. A. Altin, N. P. Robins, D. Döring, J. E. Debs, R. Poldy, C. Figl, J. D. Close

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We describe our experimental setup for creating stable Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of ⁸⁵ with tunable interparticle interactions. We use sympathetic cooling with ⁸⁷ in two stages, initially in a tight Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap and subsequently in a weak, large-volume, crossed optical dipole trap, using the 155 G Feshbach resonance to manipulate the elastic and inelastic scattering properties of the ⁸⁵ atoms. Typical ⁸⁵ condensates contain 4× 104 atoms with a scattering length of a=+200 a₀. Many aspects of the design presented here could be adapted to other dual-species BEC machines, including those involving degenerate Fermi-Bose mixtures. Our minimalist apparatus is well suited to experiments on dual-species and spinor Rb condensates, and has several simplifications over the ⁸⁵ BEC machine at JILA, which we discuss at the end of this article.

Original language	English
Article number	063103
Journal	Review of Scientific Instruments
Volume	81
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3430538
Publication status	Published - Jun 2010

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