Evaporative cooling of an atomic beam

Kinetics of the evaporative cooling of an atomic beam

We compare two distinct models of evaporative cooling of a magnetically guided atomic beam: a continuous one, consisting in approximating the atomic distribution function by a truncated equilibrium distribution, and a discrete-step one, in which the evaporation process is described in terms of successive steps consisting in a truncation of the distribution followed by rethermalization. Calculat...

Evaporative Cooling of a Guided Rubidium Atomic Beam

Evaporative cooling of magnetically trapped atomic molybdenum

An analytical model for evaporative cooling

We have developed an analytical model for evaporative cooling [1]. By simulating evaporation as a sequence of discrete steps, we could predict the time dependence of all important parameters such as temperature, density, elastic collision rate. By incorporating trap loss due to background gas collisions into our model we derived the threshold conditions for “run-away” evaporation. This is chara...

Evaporative cooling of sodium atoms.

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