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Efficient production of sodium Bose-Einstein condensates in a hybrid trap

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Ian Spielman, Stephen Eckel, Gretchen Campbell, Yanda Geng, Shouvikl Mukherjee, Swarnav Banik, Monica Gutierrez~Galan, Hector Sosa-Martinez, Madison Anderson

Abstract

We describe an apparatus that efficiently produces $^23}$Na Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a hybrid trap that combines a quadrupole magnetic field with a far-detuned optical dipole trap. Using a Bayesian optimization framework, we systematically optimize all BEC production parameters in modest sized batches of highly correlated parameters. Furthermore, we introduce a Lagrange multiplier-based technique to optimize the duration of different evaporation stages constrained to have a fixed total duration; this enables the progressive creation of increasingly rapid experimental sequences that still generate high quality BECs. Taken together, our techniques constitute a general approach for refining and accelerating sequence-based experimental protocols.
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Review of Scientific Instruments

Keywords

Sodium, Bose-Einstein Condensate, optimization, Gaussian processes

Citation

Spielman, I. , Eckel, S. , Campbell, G. , Geng, Y. , Mukherjee, S. , Banik, S. , Gutierrez~Galan, M. , Sosa-Martinez, H. and Anderson, M. (2025), Efficient production of sodium Bose-Einstein condensates in a hybrid trap, Review of Scientific Instruments, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=959952 (Accessed September 29, 2025)

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Created September 10, 2025
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