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Effect of Cold Collisions on Spin Coherence and Resonance Shifts in a Magnetically Trapped Ultra-Cold Gas

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Author(s)

D M. Harber, H J. Lewandowski, J M. McGuirk, Eric A. Cornell

Abstract

We have performed precision microwave spectroscopy on ultra-cold 87Rb confined in a magnetic trap, both above and below the Bose-condensation transition. The cold collision shifts for both normal and condensed clouds were measured, which allowed the intrastate and interstate density correlations (characterized by sometimes controversial factors of 2) to be determined. Additionally, temporal coherence of the normal cloud was studied, and the importance of mean-field and velocity-changing collisions in preserving coherence is discussed.
Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume
66
Issue
No. 5
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

coherence, cold collisions, cooling and trapping, spectroscopy quantum statistics

Citation

Harber, D. , Lewandowski, H. , McGuirk, J. and Cornell, E. (2002), Effect of Cold Collisions on Spin Coherence and Resonance Shifts in a Magnetically Trapped Ultra-Cold Gas, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) (Accessed December 15, 2024)

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Created October 31, 2002, Updated October 12, 2021